I'm an awfully good manager, and you'd be surprised to see how far I can make a little money go.

Why can't we take an apartment somewhere in an inexpensive neighbourhood--one just big enough for mother and you and me ?" "We couldn't live half so well in the first place, and, besides, I'd hate like the devil to see you working yourself to death and losing your looks.

That's just exactly what Patty is doing.

She was the family's greatest investment, you know.

Everything we had for years was spent on her because she was such a ripping beauty, and mother set her heart on her marrying nothing less than a duke.