“I can’t do that. I have accepted an engagement, and I must go through with it.”
“What makes you so much more particular about the engagement which binds you to act so many times a week for a certain manager than about the one you are under to me, your husband?”
“That is not fair. You allowed me to make this engagement.”
“Well, I don’t ask you to break it. All I ask is to let me stay with you and take care of you.”
“But, Harry dear, you would be very uncomfortable here. The rooms are so small and so shabby——”
“Well, come with me to the Bingham Hotel; they have nice big rooms there, and we shall be very comfortable.”
“But they are frightfully expensive!”
“Never mind that. George forked out this morning; he had kept me very short for a long time, so he gave me a check, and told me it was the last I should see of his money—with a black look, to prevent the pleasure from being too much for me. That is just like George, you know.”
“But perhaps he meant it; and, if so, you ought to be careful.”
“So I will be careful, and you shall help me. I’ll give it all to you to take care of as soon as I get it cashed. Fifty pounds will last a long time.”