"My own fault. Yes;--I don't doubt that. I know it was my own fault, my dear, to have had anything to do with it. And now I have got to pay for it."
"What do you mean by paying for it, Julia?"
"You know what I mean very well. Is your friend going to do us the honour of coming to us to-morrow night?" She could not have declared in plainer language how very high she thought the price to be which she had consented to give for those ineffective tickets.
"If you mean Mr. Brehgert, he is coming. You desired me to ask him, and I did so."

"My own fault. Yes; it was my own fault, my dear, to have had anything to do with it. And now I have got to pay for it."
"What do you mean by paying for it, Julia?"
"You know very well. Is your friend going to do us the honour of coming to us tomorrow night?"
"If you mean Mr. Brehgert, he is coming. You desired me to ask him, and I did so."
