Soon, however, his voice called from an adjoining room.
"Hasn't that woman sent back any of my collars, Mother dear ?" "O Pete, her daughter got out of the reformatory only yesterday," Mrs.
Wayne replied.

Lanley saw that the Wayne housekeeping was immensely complicated by crime.

"I believe I am the only person in your employ not a criminal," he said, closing the books.

"These balance now." "Have I anything left ?" "Only about a hundred and fifty." She brightened at this.
"Oh, come," she said, "that's not so bad.

I couldn't have been so terribly overdrawn, after all." "You ought not to overdraw at all," said Mr.Lanley, severely.