'He brings his little Calabrian wife and her baby out with him, and they take a small house for the winter and Italian servants, and live just as if they were in their own country and see only their Italian friends--instead of being utterly wretched in a horrible hotel.' 'For the modest consideration of a hundred dollars a day,' put in Griggs, who was a poor man.
'I wish my bills were never more than that!' Margaret laughed.
'Yes,' said Schreiermeyer, still thoughtful.

'Stromboli understands money.

He is a man of business.

He makes his wife cook for him.' 'I often cook for myself,' said Fraeulein Ottilie quite simply.

'If I had a husband, I would cook for him too!' She laughed like a child, without the slightest sourness.