"Sylvia, I am a very poor man.

Your mother, on the other hand, has some money." "Oh, father, I shan't cost you much," she replied, eagerly.

"I might perhaps by looking after things save you money.

I won't cost you much." Garratt Skinner looked at her with a rueful smile.
"You look to me rather an expensive person to keep up," he said.
"Mother dressed me like this.

It's not my choice," she said.