"There, you shall carry my purse and handkerchief while I put on my gloves.

To put them on is foolish, is it not, when one does not leave the place?
Still, one must do these things." "Your purse is heavy," I remarked, swinging it on my finger.
"I carry always with me much money," she answered.

"It is my uncle's idea.

Some day, I tell him, one of us will be robbed.

He has always one or two hundred pounds in his pocket.