She thought he had taken some trouble to acquire it.
"So you had to leave your wife at home," she said presently.

"Wasn't that rather hard for both of you ?" "It was hard enough," he replied with feeling.

"What made it worse was that I hadn't much money to leave with her; but I had to go.

The man who will take no chances has to stay at the bottom." "Then, if it's not an impertinence, your means are small ?" "Your interest is a compliment.

We had two hundred dollars when we were married.