She had been telling him of her life in her brother's house, where she paid four dollars and a half a week board.

At fifteen she had graduated from grammar school and gone to work in the jute mills for four dollars a week, three of which she had paid to Sarah.
"How about that saloonkeeper ?" Billy asked.

"How come it he adopted you ?" She shrugged her shoulders.

"I don't know, except that all my relatives were hard up.

It seemed they just couldn't get on.