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He wrote a column about this kind of love in his Mars department , and a hundred thousand men read it with gurgles of warm appreciation and quoted it at dinner the next night . Then he married Miss Evans and became interested in the price of coal and other household supplies . His absorption in these topics was almost feverish . He talked about them morning , noon , and night . His interest in literature flickered and died out . To Maxwell , his first and still his best friend , he finally confided his dilemma . `` You see , old man , '' he began , one morning about six months after the wedding , `` we 've discovered , Clara and I , that the least we can live on in New York is fifty dollahs a week .