And you know the dining-room rug looks very shabby.

I was thinking we must have an Eastern rug, which would cost at least one hundred and fifty; I thought it would pay in the end.

Well, I am prepared to give that up and have a domestic, which only costs twenty-five; that is a hundred and twenty-five more saved.

And I had planned to have my seal-skin coat made over after Christmas, and you know you cannot have seal-skin touched under a hundred; there is a hundred more.

There are three hundred and seventy-five saved, which will pay for Maria's tuition for a year, and enough over for travelling expenses." Nothing could have exceeded the expression of lofty virtue of Ida Edgham when she concluded her speech.