And I said:
‘It is the first to-day.’
She said:
‘The first?’
‘The 1st of October. I don’t know how they got them in the shop so early, though.’
She said:
‘My dear child, you don’t mean to say you bought a pheasant the first day they came in?’
And I said:
‘Yes; I saw it in the shop, and I remembered it was the first. Guy will have gone down to Yearsly to-day; he always does.’
Then Maud asked me what it had cost, and I told her fifteen shillings, and she took in a deep breath, and looked at Walter, and Walter looked uncomfortable. Maud asked him whether he made me a housekeeping allowance and he said he didn’t, and then Maud asked me how much I spent on my housekeeping every week, and I said I did not know.