Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses, but you outstripped all taste and temperance.

You demanded without grace and received without thanks.

You grew to think that you had a sort of right to live at my expense, and in a profuse luxury to which you had never been accustomed, and which, for that reason, made your appetites all the more keen, and at the end, if you lost money gambling in some Algiers Casino, you simply telegraphed next morning to me in London to lodge the amount of your losses to your account at your bank, and gave the matter no further thought of any kind.
When I tell you that between the autumn of 1892 and the date of my imprisonment, I spent with you and on you, more than L5,000 in actual money, irrespective of the bills I incurred, you will have some idea of the sort of life on which you insisted.

Do you think I exaggerate?
My ordinary expenses with you for an ordinary day in London--for luncheon, dinner, supper, amusements, hansoms, and the rest of it--ranged from L12 to L20, and the week's expenses were naturally in proportion and ranged from L80 to L130.

For our three months at Goring my expenses (rent, of course, included) were L1,340.