heads attached she begged i didn t mean to wake you up dear and please don t smoke you ve been smoking so much please go back to sleep i m sorry being sorry s all right but i m going to tell you one or two things this falling for anybody s say so about medical jealousy and competition is simply part and parcel of your usual to think the worst you possibly can of us poor in trouble with women like you is you always want to argue can t take things the way they are got to argue well i m not going to argue about this in any way shape manner or form trouble with you is you don t make any effort to appreciate us you re so damned superior and think the city is such a hell of a lot finer place and you want us to do what you want all the time that s not true it s i who make the effort it s they � it s you � who stand back and i have to come over to the town s opinion i have to devote myself to their interests they can t even see my interests to say nothing of them i get ever so excited about their old lake and the cottages but they simply in main street that friendly way you so much if i speak of wanting to see also sure whatever that is � some nice expensive colony i suppose sure that s the idea champagne taste and beer income and make sure that we never will have more than a beer income too are you by any chance that i am not economical well i hadn t intended to but since you bring it up yourself i don t mind saying the bills are about twice what they ought to be yes they probably are i m not economical i can t be thanks to you where d you get that thanks to you please don t be quite so � or shall i say vulgar ni be as damn as i want to how do you get that thanks to you here about a year ago you jump me for not remembering to give you money well i m reasonable i didn t blame you and i said i was to blame but have i ever forgotten it since � practically no you haven t � practically but that isn t it i ought to have an allowance i will too i must have an agreement for a regular stated amount every month fine idea of course a doctor gets a regular stated amount sure a thousand one month � and lucky if he makes a hundred the next very well then a or something else no matter how much you vary you can make a rough average for but what s the idea what are you trying to get at mean to say i m unreasonable think i m so and that you ve got to tie me down with a contract by god that hurts i thought i d been pretty generous and decent and i took a lot of pleasure � thinks i she ll be when i hand her over this twenty � or fifty or whatever it was and now seems you been wanting to make it a kind of me like a poor fool thinking i was liberal all the while and you please stop pitying yourself you re having a beautiful time feeling injured i admit all you say certainly you ve given me money both freely and quite as if i were your mistress i main street i mean it what was a magnificent spectacle of generosity to you was humiliation to me you gave me money � gave it to your mistress if she was and then you don t interrupt me � then you felt you d discharged all obligation well hereafter refuse your money as a gift either i m your partner in charge of the household department of our business with a regular for it or else i m nothing if i m to be a mistress i shall choose my lovers oh i hate it � i hate it � this and hoping for money � and then not even spending it on jewels as a mistress has a right to but spending it on double and for you yes indeed you re generous you give me a dollar right out � the only is that i must spend it on a tie for you and you give it when and as you wish how can i be anything but oh well of course looking at it that w y i can t shop around can t buy in large quantities have to stick to stores where i have a charge account good deal of the time can t plan because i don t know how much money i can depend on that s what i pay for your charming about giving so generously you make me wait wait you know you re you never thought about that mistress stuff till just this minute matter of fact you never have and hoped for money but all the same you may be right you ought to run the household as a business ill figure out a definite plan tomorrow and hereafter you ll be on a regular amount or with your own checking account oh that is decent of you she turned toward him trying to be affectionate but his eyes were pink and in the of tjie match with which he lighted his dead and cigar his head drooped and a ridge of flesh scattered with pale small out under his chin she sat in till he no t especially decent it s just fair and god knows i want to be fair but i expect others to be 