“I had typhoid fever two years ago up in the country at my uncle's.”
“What's your uncle's name?”
“Henry Peters.”
“Yes, I remember now.”
“I wanted to find out what my bill is.”
“Wait here a moment till I look at the book.”
In a minute he had found it: Millie Hastings—so many visits at such and such a date, amounting to thirty-six dollars. He went back to the 'phone.
“Do you make your money by working by the week?”
“Have you learned how to save it?”