Politics are expensive they sap the purse.
That's why." "You never thought of giving him an income which would compensate a little for what his father failed to do for him ?" There was asperity in her tone.
"He wouldn't take from me what his father didn't give him." Suddenly an idea seized him.

"Look here," he said, "you're a friend of the Griers, why don't you help keep things straight between the two concerns?
You could do it.

You have the art of getting your own way.

I've noticed that." "So you'd like me to persuade Fabian Grier to influence Belloc, because I'd make things easy for you!" she said briskly.

"Do you forget I've known Fabian since I was a baby, that my sister is his wife, and that his interests are near to me ?" He did not knuckle down.