“$10 a week for housekeeping! I am afraid you’ll find that will make a poor show, little wife,” he said caressingly. “I shall think we are happy and fortunate, if the $20 we now allow for our clothes and outside expenses will cover the deficit at the end of the month.”
“You’ll see $10 is enough.”
He laughed good-humoredly.
“I guess, Pussy, we shall both see things grow ‘small by degrees and beautifully less,’ toward the end of each month.”
“We’ll hope not,” said Molly meekly, for now that she hoped her hour of trial and triumph was coming, she could afford to let him anticipate evil.
CHAPTER II.
AT HOME.
On the 1st of September our young couple took possession of their new house.
It was a small house, or rather cottage, in the fashionable New Jersey town of Greenfield, and contained a dining-room, sitting-room and kitchen on the first floor, and four rooms above arranged as bed-room, guest-room, servants’ room and sewing-room. It was as slightly built as a house could be, probably, yet in better taste than most houses of its class, and Mrs. Winfield’s taste in furnishing was excellent, so that even Harry’s fastidious eye was satisfied.