"I don't like to go round without money in my pocket. It doesn't look well for the son of a rich man."
"Who told you I was a rich man?" said his father testily.
"Why, you are, aren't you? Everybody in the village says so."
"I may, or may not, be rich, but I don't care to encourage my son in extravagant habits. You say you have no money. Don't you have your regular allowance?"
"It is only two dollars a week."
"Only two dollars a week!" repeated the father angrily. "Let me tell you, young man, that when I was of your age I didn't have twenty-five cents a week."
"That was long ago. People lived differently from what they do now."
"How did they?"
"They didn't live in any style."
"They didn't spend money foolishly, as they do now. I don't see for my part what you can do with even two dollars a week."