“I certainly am not going to disappoint the Burks and stay at home to talk about anything disagreeable.”
“You’re not very sympathetic, Stella.”
She turned away.
“If I were, you’d soon settle down into a pretty dull proposition. We’d have no social life now if I didn’t keep at you.”
Percy roused himself a little.
“Social life? Well, we’ll have to trim that pretty close for a while. I’m in debt to the company. We’ve been living beyond our means ever since we were married.”
“We can’t live on less than we do,” Stella said quietly. “No use in taking that up again.”
Percy sat up, clutching the arms of his chair.
“We’ll have to take it up. I’m seven hundred dollars short, and the books are to be audited to-morrow. I told young Remsen and he’s going to take my note and hold the money out of my pay-checks. He could send me to jail, of course.”
Stella turned and looked down at him with a gleam of interest.