We are realizing large profits, and we are worked to death.

I don't like this change in her: she has a purpose to answer, or she would not show such extraordinary eagerness to fill her purse.

Nothing I can do--no cooking of accounts; no self-presented testimonials--can keep that purse empty.

The success of the Entertainment, and her own sharpness in looking after her interests, literally force me into a course of comparative honesty.

She puts into her pocket more than a third of the profits, in defiance of my most arduous exertions to prevent her.