"'Bout me an' 'Poulter's.' You don't mean to say you 'aven't 'eard!"
"I hope it's good news."
"Good! Good! It's wonderful! Jest you throw your eye over that."
Mavis read a formally worded letter from Mr Poulter, in which he informed Miss Nippett "that, in consideration of her many years' faithful service, he could think of no more fitting way to reward her than by taking her into partnership: in accordance with this resolve, what was formerly known as 'Poulter's' would in future be described for all time as 'Poulter and Nippett's.'"
"What d'ye think of that?" asked Miss Nippett.
"It's only what you deserved."
"There's no going back on it now it's in black and white."
"He wouldn't wish to."
"It's proof, ain't it, legal an' all that?"
"Absolute. I congratulate you," said Mavis, as she took the wan white hand in hers.