Janet. Yes, and what about your clothes and my clothes, and the rates and taxes, and bus-fares, and holidays, and your cigarettes, and doctor, and errand boys' Christmas-boxes, and gas, and coal, and repairs? Repairs! A hundred and eighty is more like what we want.

Carve. And yet you have several times taken your Bible oath that my half-share of it all came to less than forty pounds.

Janet. Well—er—I was thinking of food. (She begins to collect the breakfast things.)

Carve. Jane, you have been a deceitful thing. But never mind. I will draw a veil over this sinful past. Let us assume that beer goes all to pieces, and that you never get another cent out of Cohoon's. Well, as you need a hundred and eighty a year, I will give you a hundred and eighty a year.

Janet. And where shall you get the extra hundred?

Carve. I shall earn it.

Janet. No, you don't. I won't have you taking any more situations.

Carve. I shall earn it here.

Janet. How?

Carve. Painting!