53/63 We must put up at Madam Binat's for old time's sake. Add a hundred for the cost of the last trip--Gad, won't Torp stare to see me!--a hundred and thirty-two leaves seventy-eight for baksheesh--I shall need it--and to play with. Oh, you funny little opossum, mop your eyes and take me out! I want the pass-book and the check-book. Four thousand pounds at four per cent--that's safe interest--means a hundred and sixty pounds a year; one hundred and twenty pounds a hear--also safe--is two eighty, and two hundred and eighty pounds added to three hundred a year means gilded luxury for a single woman. |