Ten dollars a week may be an enormous sum, even when countries but now have been juggling billions carelessly.
They were now near the end of their daily journey.

Presently they descended from the car and, bent against the icy wind, made their way certain blocks toward the door which meant home for them.

They clumped up the stairs of the wooden building to the third floor, and opened the door to their room.
It was cold.

There was no fire burning in the stove--they never left one burning, for they furnished their own fuel; and in the morning, even in the winter time, they rose and dressed in the cold.
"Never mind, dear," said Annie again, and pushed Mary down into the rocking chair as she would have busied herself with the kindling.

"Let me, now.