"There's all the furniture."
"We could use some of it."
"And store the rest?"
"Yes—or auction it."
"Small profit in either. What are you going to do with the lease? Store it, or auction it, or use it for furnishing?"
Her lip quivered sensitively. "Why, I supposed—"
"Yes, we can sublet the house—if anybody is found to take it. There was something of a wait before we took it. There might be another."
"There's that Mrs. Cass—"
"I don't know how much she could do in three weeks—a good many people are fixed by this time. Two weeks sooner would have made some difference. I couldn't very well afford to carry the house all through the summer. There's a bottom to our pocket-book, and we are getting to it faster than you think."
This was a figure of speech that called for no direct response. For—