Success costs money always, and I have been successful--you admit that.

My rooms are frequented entirely by the class of young men you have wished me to encourage.

Pauline and I here, and Rose, whom you have met, seek our friends in no other direction.

We are never alone, and, as you very well know, not a day has passed that I have not sent you some little word of gossip or information--the gossip of the navy and the gossip of the army--and there is always some truth underneath what these young men say.

It is what you desire, is it not ?" "Without a doubt," Selingman assented.