"From five to seven dollars a week."
"That's a good raise. I wonder whether I'm to be raised, too."
"Perhaps so."
"I hope so, for I'm fifty dollars in debt, and don't see how I am to pay it."
"You get twelve dollars a week, don't you?"
"Yes; but what's twelve dollars?"
"I have been living on five."
"And you don't owe anything?"
"Not a cent."
"Blessed if I see how you do it! I need fifteen, and I ought to have it."