"There's Jim gone, and all his mother's got is that little, mortgaged place, and she feeble, and there ain't a cent anywhere, unless--" She turned fiercely to Andrew, clutching him hard by the arm.
"You must take every cent of that money out of the savings-bank," she cried, "every cent of it.

I'm your wife, and I've been a good wife to you, you can't say I haven't." "Yes, of course you have, poor girl! Don't, don't!" said Andrew, soothingly.

He was very pale, and shook from head to foot as he tried to calm Fanny.
"Yes, I've been a good, faithful wife," Fanny went on, in her high, hysterical voice.

"Even your mother can't say that I haven't; and Eva is my own sister, and you ought to help her.

Every cent of that money will have to come out of the savings-bank, and the house here will have to be mortgaged; it's only my due.