"You know what I mean. Only mental bankrupts go to the devil because they're hungry. I'm less bothered about keeping body and soul together --Huckster's seven a week does that after a fashion--than about keeping soul and mind together."
"It sounds reasonable."
"I'm desperate, I tell you! And there's more than one resort of desperation for a girl of intelligence."
"As, for instance-"
"Well--you've named one."
"Man?"
"That's the animal's first name."
"But you've just pointed out, a successful campaign demands a wardrobe."
"Even that can be had if one's unscrupulous enough."
"Whatever do you mean?"