Who told you they were fire-extinguishers, Sally ?" "The Colonel," said Miss Sally, and the Colonel moved his feet uneasily.
"Indeed!" exclaimed Mrs.Smith, giving the Colonel another of her paralyzing glances.

"But Miss Sally will do whatever is right.

She hasn't the money at this moment.

You can wait until to-morrow for the sixty dollars, can you not, until she can see her father ?" The butcher grew red in the face, redder than his naturally high coloring, but he shook his head.
"I want it now," he said.

"Business is business." And after a moment he added, "It wasn't sixty, it was one hundred.