human
I can't go. You had better telephone the Burks we aren't coming. I have to tell you something disagreeable.
gpt
I certainly am not going to disappoint the Burks and stay at home to talk about anything disagreeable.
human
You're not very sympathetic, Stella.
gpt
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.
human
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.
gpt
We can't live on less than we do, Stella said quietly.
human
No use in taking that up again.
gpt
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.
human
Oh, you've been playing solitaire with the books, have you? And he's found you out! I hope I'll never see that man again. Sugar face! She said this with intense acrimony. Her forehead flushed delicately, and her eyes were full of hate. Young Remsen was not her idea of a