100-a-week

Updated: June 17, 2025

I know what I ought to be getting. He's got to do better by me or I'll quit. I'll show him that I'm no $100-a-week piker." "You've no right to say that, Jim," interrupted his wife. "Just think how good he is to Virginia. He's always giving her something. Only last week he bought her a diamond necklace which must have cost $5,000 if a cent."

George Howells Broadhurst - Bought and Paid For: From the Play of George Broadhurst