I know prices are higher than they used to be, but he doesn't spend within thousands of what he used to, and we certainly can't be spending more than we always have spent.

Where does it all go to?
Uncle George told me grandfather had sold some pieces of property, and it looks a little queer.

If he's really 'property poor,' of course we ought to be more saving than we are, and help him out.

I don't mind giving up a tandem if it seems a little too expensive just now.

I'm perfectly willing to live quietly till he gets his bank balance where he wants it.
But I have a faint suspicion, not that he's getting miserly--not that at all--but that old age has begun to make him timid about money.