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21 ten dollars a week. I was offered twenty-five dollars a week. It's a little difficult to live in New York on twenty-five dollars a week. HENSON: Even back then it would still be difficult, yes. MANN: when I left, after two years at the [[underlined]] Woman's Home Companion [[/underlined]], I was getting all of forty-five dollars a week, and I lived very well--got to the theatre, bought my trousseau at Bergdoff Goodman's. [Laughter] HENSON: My goodness. MANN: Yes, there was always money. HENSON: Yes, it depends on what you allot to it. MANN: Prices were different. That was, you see, more than fifty years ago. HENSON: Right. Why had you left Bureau of Entomology? MANN: Why did I leave it? HENSON: Yes. MANN: I was not an entomologist, and eventually it seemed rather dull to me. I wanted something more exciting than bugs. [Laughter] HENSON: Little did you know!