原文 (英語)

XVIX. Making money in those days was so ridiculously easy! The trouble was to know how to spend it. One evening when I got home I told Maude I had a surprise for her. "A surprise?" she asked, looking up from a little pink smock she was making for Chickabiddy. "I've bought that lot on Grant Avenue, next to the Ogilvys'." She dropped her sewing, and stared at me. "Aren't you pleased?" I asked. "At last we are going to have a house of our very own. What's the matter?" "I can't