Anger gave her unwonted glibness.
"I'll ask you to be good enough to pay our bill, then.

If you're making off because you can't pay your other debts it's no affair of mine." He bowed mockingly.

"You are real kind.

Can't think how much obliged I am for your tactful reminder; but it don't happen to be my financial affairs that I came to introdooce to your notice." He stammered a moment, as if carried rather out of his bearings by his own loquacity.
"It's--it's rather _your_ finances that I wish to enlarge upon." She opposed herself to him in cold silence that would not betray a gleam of curiosity.
"You're a mighty fine young lady, upon my word!" he observed, running his eye visibly over her apparel.

"Able to work for yourself, and buy silk skirts, and owning half a bit of ground that people are beginning to think will be worth something considerable when they get to mining there.