She is always telling me not to be extravagant." "That, my dear boy, invariably happens to an impecunious fellow who marries a rich wife." Ronnie flushed.

"I am impecunious no longer," he said.

"During the past twelve months I have made, by my books, a larger income than my wife's." "I can well believe it," said Aubrey, cordially.

"But I suppose she can never forget the fact that, when you married her, she paid your debts." Ronald West sprang to his feet.
"Confound you!" he said, violently.

"What do you mean?
Helen never paid my debts! She found them out, I admit; but I paid them every one myself, with the first cheque I received from my publishers.