You get me a piece of paper and tell me what to write.

Then we'll see what it all comes to.' 'Do you mean everything we owe, or everything we must pay tomorrow.' 'I think we'd better make a list of all we owe first.' While they were talking the baby was sleeping restlessly, occasionally uttering plaintive little cries.

The mother now went and knelt at the side of the cradle, which she gently rocked with one hand, patting the infant with the other.
'Except the furniture people, the biggest thing we owe is the rent,' she said when Easton was ready to begin.
'It seems to me,' said he, as, after having cleared a space on the table and arranged the paper, he began to sharpen his pencil with a table-knife, 'that you don't manage things as well as you might.

If you was to make a list of just the things you MUST have before you went out of a Saturday, you'd find the money would go much farther.

Instead of doing that you just take the money in your hand without knowing exactly what you're going to do with it, and when you come back it's all gone and next to nothing to show for it.' His wife made no reply: her head was bent over the child.
'Now, let's see,' went on her husband.