Well, he'll see then that this kind of thing was all show-off, and bluff, won't he?
What about it ?" "Oh, well, by THAT time----" She left the sentence unfinished, as if absently.

"You could let us have a little money for to-morrow, couldn't you, honey ?" "Oh, I reckon, I reckon," he mumbled.

"A girl like Alice is some comfort: she don't come around acting as if she'd commit suicide if she didn't get three hundred and fifty dollars in the next five minutes.

I expect I can spare five or six dollars for your show-off if I got to." However, she finally obtained fifteen before his bedtime; and the next morning "went to market" after breakfast, leaving Alice to make the beds.

Walter had not yet come downstairs.