She goes back into the kitchen, banging the door.

MRS. BRAMSON: Isn't paid? Is she mad? (To OLIVIA) Are you mad?
Why don't you pay her?

OLIVIA (coming down): Because you don't give me the money to do it with.

MRS. BRAMSON: I—(fumbling at her bodice)—wheel me over to that cupboard.

OLIVIA is about to do so, when she catches DAN'S eye.

OLIVIA (to DAN, pointedly): Perhaps you'd go into the kitchen and get the paper from Mrs. Terence?

DAN (after a second's pause, with a laugh): Of course I will, madam! Anythin' you say! Anythin' you say!

He careers into the kitchen, still carrying the Bible. MRS. BRAMSON has fished up two keys on the end of a long black tape. OLIVIA wheels her over to the cupboard above the fireplace.

OLIVIA: If you give me the key, I'll get it for you.

MRS. BRAMSON: No fear! _She unlocks the cupboard; it turns out to be a small but very substantial safe.