Look at the other girls' houses, and then look at our house, so shabby and old-fashioned she'd be pretty near ashamed to ask anybody to come in and sit down nowadays! Look at her clothes--oh, yes; you think you shelled out a lot for that little coat of hers and the hat and skirt she got last March; but it's nothing.

Some of these girls nowadays spend more than your whole salary on their clothes.

And what jewellery has she got?
A plated watch and two or three little pins and rings of the kind people's maids wouldn't wear now.

Good Lord, Virgil Adams, wake up! Don't sit there and tell me you don't know things like this mean SUFFERING for the child!" He had begun to rub his hands wretchedly back and forth over his bony knees, as if in that way he somewhat alleviated the tedium caused by her racking voice.

"Oh, my, my!" he muttered.