"Buy chicken on credit."
"I only want a half or a quarter of one. You had twenty-four sous in your purse this morning."
"That is true, godmother."
"Then go to the rôtisseur and buy me a quarter of a chicken."
"But, godmother, I—"
"Well?"
"I haven't that much money any longer, I have only a few sous left."
"And those two ten sous pieces; what became of them?"
"Godmother—"
"Where are those two ten sous pieces, tell me?"