“But, Helen, the money for a debut! And if we go into our house and turn out the desirable tenants, where are we to get an income to exist on?”
“Oh, always money, money! It can be gotten, and mother says our credit is as good as the U. S. mint. She has often heard father say so.”
“Of course it was as good, but now that father is no longer able to earn money it would not be quite square to presume on that credit when we have no way of paying the bills.” Douglas would go over and over the same argument and Helen would still not be convinced.
“Are we to spend the rest of our lives digging and delving for gold and then not use the money? How does our bank account stand now?”
“I don’t know, but it is not so large that we could make a debut on it,” smiled Douglas.
“But we could make a start and then earn some more.”
“But why spend it on me when I don’t want to go into society?”
“Why, for mother’s sake, goose. She has set her heart on it and you know we have always let her do whatever she wanted to. It would make father miserable to think mother wanted something and could not have it.”
“Yes, I know! He mustn’t know she wants it and can’t have it.”