The starveling rose.
"No, thank you, 'm," he said.
"Aren't you hungry then?" asked the young woman.
"Not as I'm aware of," laughed Ernie.
"Nonsense," the other answered, "you can live by the Spirit, but not on it." And she took him firmly by the arm and led him into the kitchen.
Her guest established, she returned to her husband.
"Have you found him a job, Samuel Pigott?" she asked.
"I have not, Elsie Pigott. Nor has he asked me for one."
"Mr. Pigott," his wife retorted, "if you were not twenty years my senior I should call you the beast you undoubtedly are."
All the same, when his wife had gone to bed that night, Mr. Pigott rang up the Hohenzollern Hotel and asked the Manager why Ernie had been dismissed.