like in the third floor with mr. bulemann , so had mrs. anken also accumulated in the lower floors her not entirely legitimately acquired treasures.-already in the first years of their life together she had been attacked by a kind of childish fear that her master might one day take over the business of the expenditure of the household money himself and she would , by the greed of him , have to suffer want even to her old days.to avert this , she lied to him ; the price of wheat had risen , and soon demanded a corresponding additional sum for the bread ration .