But I took time to run into the bank and go over things carefully.

I find that after the payment of taxes and insurance and all the household expenses, that by wearing old clothes I have and making them over I can afford to turn over at least seventy-five dollars a month to you for your clothing and personal expenses.

As I don't know exactly when I can get home, I am enclosing a cheque which is considerably larger than I had supposed I could make it, and I can only do this by skimping myself; but of course you are getting such a big girl and beginning to attract attention, so it is only right that you should have the very best that I can afford to do for you.

I am not taking the bill from The Mode into consideration.

I paid that with last month's expenses.
With love, EILEEN.
Linda held the letter in one hand, the cheque in the other, and stared questioningly at John Gilman.
"What do you think of that ?" she inquired tersely.
"It seems to me," said Gilman, "that a more pertinent question would be, what do you think of it ?" "Rot!" said Linda tersely.