"She has troubles of her own," he thought.
"How much can we run the house on, Deborah ?" he asked her.

At first she did not answer.

"What was it--about six thousand last year ?" "I think so," she said restlessly.

"We can cut down on that, of course--" "With Edith and the children here ?" "Edith will have to manage it! There are others to be thought of!" "The children in your schools, you mean." "Yes," she answered with a frown.

"It will be a bad year for the tenements.
But please go on and tell me.