I'll have to have some car fare. And my office suit has got
to be pressed about once every two weeks--"
"And newspapers!" added Nancy, dolefully. "Seven cents more!" And
they both burst into laughter. "But, Bee," she said presently,
ruffling his hair, as she sat on the arm of his chair, "really I
do not know what we will do in case of dentist's bills, or
illness, or when our clothes wear out. What do people do? Is
thirty-five too much rent, or what?"
"I'm darned if I know what they do!" Bert mused.
Chapter Five
They both were destined to learn how it was managed, and being
young and healthy and in love, they learned easily, and with much
laughter and delight. Bert's share was perhaps the easier, for
although he manfully walked to his office, polished his own shoes,
and ate a tiresome and unsatisfying lunch five days a week, he had
his reward on the sixth and seventh days, when Nancy petted and
praised him.
Her part was harder. She never knew what it was to be free from
financial concern. She fretted and contrived until the misspending
of five cents seemed a genuine calamity to her, She walked to
cheap markets, and endured the casual scorn of cheap clerks.
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