"If you don't tell me what's the matter—Why couldn't you?"
"No money!"
"No money? Where's the purse?"
"Here 'tis;" and he handed it to her.
She opened it and found it empty. "Where's the money?" she demanded in great alarm.
"Dunno."
"What did you do with it?"
"Nothin'."
By dint of a few dozen more questions she arrived at the information that when he had opened the purse to pay the first bill he found it empty.
"Why didn't you look on the floor?"