“Two and seven for the butcher. We must pay that. I’m ashamed to pass the shop, because when I got the meat I promised to pay him the next week, and it’s nearly three weeks ago now.”
“I’ve put that down. What else?”
“A hundred of coal: one and six.”
“Next?”
“The instalment for the furniture and floor-cloth, twelve shillings.”
“Next?”
“We owe the milkman four weeks; we’d better pay one week on account; that’s one and two.”
“Next?”
“The greengrocer; one shilling on account.”
“Anything else?”