It was a question of work, and hard work, and small pay.

He lived on his salary because he had to, but he did not resent his grandfather's attitude.

He was better satisfied to spend his "weakly salary," as he called it, in his own way than to earn more by dining seven nights a week with an old man who had forgotten he was ever young.

It was less wearing, he said.
Among the "Little Sons of the Rich," birthdays were always occasions for feasting.

The table was covered with dishes sent up from the French restaurant in the basement.