Every year expenses grow bigger and bigger.

I told you not to ask for money!" "I never meant to," replied Elnora.

"I thought clothes were all I needed and I could bear them.

I never knew about buying books and tuition." "Well, I did!" said Mrs.Comstock.

"I knew what you would run into! But you are so bull-dog stubborn, and so set in your way, I thought I would just let you try the world a little and see how you liked it!" Elnora pushed back her chair and looked at her mother.
"Do you mean to say," she demanded, "that you knew, when you let me go into a city classroom and reveal the fact before all of them that I expected to have my books handed out to me; do you mean to say that you knew I had to pay for them ?" Mrs.Comstock evaded the direct question.
"Anybody but an idiot mooning over a book or wasting time prowling the woods would have known you had to pay.