What are your annual expenses ?" "I am ashamed to say." "Fifteen hundred dollars ?" "They have never fallen below that since we were married, and, for the last three years, have reached the sum of two thousand dollars.

This year they will even exceed that." Wilkinson shook his head.
"Too much! too much!" "I know it is.

A man in my circumstances has no right to expend even half that sum.

Why, five hundred dollars a year less in our expenses since we were married would have left me a capital of five thousand dollars in my business." "And placed you now on the sure road to fortune." "Undoubtedly." "Take my advice, and give to Cara a full statement of your affairs.

Do it at once--this very day.