When her monthly statement from the bank came on
the first of July she found that five thousand dollars
had been deposited to her credit. She was moved by
this discovery to devote several hours--very depressed
hours they were--to her finances. She had spent a
great deal more money than she had thought; indeed,
since March she had been living at the rate of fifteen
thousand a year. She tried to account for this amazing
extravagance. But she could recall no expenditure
that was not really almost, if not quite, necessary. It
took a frightful lot of money to live in New York.
How DID people with small incomes manage to get along?
Whatever would have become of her if she had not had
the good luck to be able to borrow from Stanley? What
would become of her if, before she was succeeding on
the stage, Stanley should die or lose faith in her or
interest in her? What would become of her! She had
been living these last few months among people who
had wide-open eyes and knew everything that was going
on--and did some ``going-on'' themselves, as she was
now more than suspecting.
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