They have signs that prohibit it."
"That's good," he said grimly. "But the rent is thirty-six dollars a
month; the dinner is twenty-two and a half for each of us, and we've
got to have some provision for other food. We won't need any clothes
for a year, perhaps--"
"Oh, longer!" she exclaimed. "So you see--"
"I see that forty-five and thirty-six make eighty-one," he said. "At
the lowest, we need a hundred dollars a month--and I'm going to make
thirty-two."
"I thought of that, George," she said confidently, "and I'm sure it
will be all right. You'll be earning a great deal more than that very
soon."
"I don't see any prospect of it--not till I'm admitted to the bar, and
that will be two years at the earliest."
Fanny's confidence was not shaken. "I know you'll be getting on
faster than--"
"Faster?" George echoed gravely. "We've got to have more than that to
start with."
"Well, there's the six hundred dollars from the sale. Six hundred and
twelve dollars it was."
"It isn't six hundred and twelve now," said George.
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