Nobody could live on it even without two children to bring up." She shook her head.

"Oh, Judge Crowborough, how little you rich men really know! I've got to live on it until I can do better, and I hope that will be very soon.

If I am worth anything now, in three months I ought to be worth certainly as much as twenty-five dollars a week.

In a little while--as soon as I've caught on to the business--I'm going to ask for a larger salary, and I think I shall get it.

Twenty-five dollars a week won't go very far, but you don't know how little some people can live on even in New York." "As soon as the six hundred dollars go you'll be headed straight for starvation," he protested, sincerely worried.
"Perhaps, but I doubt it." "How much do you have to pay for your rooms ?" "Twenty-five dollars a month.