LILY. Of course, you’re worried. Still—it might have been worse. You might have been sent away.
CHARLEY. Yes.
LILY. It’s very disheartening—after all we’d planned to do with it. You won’t be able to have the greenhouse, now, will you, dear?
CHARLEY. [with a short laugh.] What’s the good of a greenhouse in that yard. It isn’t that.
LILY. [a little timidly.] But we can manage very well, dear. We—you remember what I said this morning—about the other lodger.
CHARLEY. Oh, don’t, for heaven’s sake. It isn’t losing the cash I mind; it’s having to give in like this. I want to go to them and tell them to do their worst and get somebody else.
LILY. But dear, you might lose your place.
CHARLEY. I should.
LILY. But that—we couldn’t afford that, could we? Why, we can manage quite well as we are. I can be very careful still—
CHARLEY. I’m tired of going on as we’ve been going.