Olga

“Do you need the money so much?"
"Well, I don't have any at present. So, yes. Must feed the horse or he won't go, you see. But I was under the impression that ladies of your estate never acknowledge lowly trifles like actual money."
"Oh, we don't. Sometimes, however, when I am carried through town on a chair by my four Ethiopian eunuchs, the peasants toss flowers at me, and in return my little pageboy throws coins at them. So I have actually seen money."
" How affecting for you that must be."
" I enjoy consorting with the plebes," she said airily. "As long as they don't actually come too close, of course.”
― Katharine Ashe, The Rogue