"Pretty clothes, and fine furniture, and automobiles, and servants, and parties, and so on, are things--at least with women--that go a long way toward satisfaction.

I sometimes don't blame girls who marry rich old men; they can put up with them for the pleasures their money will procure." "Ruth, Ruth, don't utter such nonsense! At any rate, you've too much common sense ever to waste yourself on a doddering money bags." "I'll never have the chance," said she.

"But if I had, I'd think it over carefully.

A young man with money I could be especially nice to, and I might even set out to catch him.

You see, I'm quite frank and open about it." "Nonsense," he repeated.