Denham.
Why ought there, you monkey?
Undine.
Oh, because then, don't you see, you could count on your fingers all right, but now there are too many pennies for your fingers, and so you never can tell how many are over.
Denham.
Very convenient. But come now, twelve from twenty-one?
Undine.
(counting again) Nine?
Denham.
(resuming his book) All right then. Down with it in the pence column, and get on.