They were already busy with the designs.

The bed would cost fifty thousand francs, and Muffat was to give it her as a New Year's present.
What most astonished the young woman was that she was endlessly short of money amid a river of gold, the tide of which almost enveloped her.

On certain days she was at her wit's end for want of ridiculously small sums--sums of only a few louis.

She was driven to borrow from Zoe, or she scraped up cash as well as she could on her own account.

But before resignedly adopting extreme measures she tried her friends and in a joking sort of way got the men to give her all they had about them, even down to their coppers.