That's why! He doesn't LOVE me!' And
you DON'T!" cried Dolly. "you DON'T!"
It took him all of three minutes to persuade her she was mistaken.
"Very well, then," sobbed Dolly, "that's settled. And there'll be
no more talk of sending me away!
"There will NOT!" said Champneys hastily. "We will now," he
announced, "go into committee of the whole and decide how we are to
face financial failure. Our assets consist of two stories,
accepted, but not paid for, and fifteen stories not accepted. In
cash, he spread upon the table a meagre collection of soiled bills
and coins. "We have twenty-seven dollars and fourteen cents. That
is every penny we possess in the world."
Dolly regarded him fixedly and shook her head.
"Is it wicked," she asked, "to love you so?"
"Haven't you been listening to me?" demanded Carter.
Again Dolly shook her head.
"I was watching the way you talk. When your lips move fast they do
such charming things."
"Do you know," roared Carter, "that we haven't a penny in the
world, that we have nothing in this flat to eat?"
"I still have five hats," said Dolly.
"We can't eat hats," protested Champneys.
"We can sell hats!" returned Dolly. "They cost eighty dollars
apiece!"
"When you need money," explained Carter, "I find it's just as hard
to sell a hat as to eat it."
"Twenty-seven dollars and fourteen cents," repeated Dolly.
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