You may call me what you please; I _had to do it_, or lose the consulship.

Now look the matter in the face.

You must contract no more debts; I can't discharge the old ones.

Live as reasonably as you can." "And no more nice dinners?
No more visits to Baiae ?" groaned the lady, rocking to and fro.
"Yes, yes," broke in her brother-in-law, sharply, "I can still raise enough to meet all ordinary expenses.

If I let down in my household, my creditors would see I was pinched, and begin to pluck me.