"Badly enough, God knows!"
"I do not like to accept the advances he makes us, when I see you not working at the picture."
"Bah!"
"You must do it sooner or later; why not now? Come, Cecil, make an effort—begin it."
"Begin when I haven't even money to buy the necessary materials. Write to him and tell him I have a splendid subject, but that really——"
"That is unnecessary. I have money—I will go and get you all you want."
"You, Blanche! And where did you get money from?'
"Never mind," she replied playfully. "Perhaps it was a little fairy. Enough that I have some."
"Oh, I'm not curious; so that you have got money, that is all I care about. How much?"
"There again! Not curious! Why, you are as curious as a woman. Don't inquire."