Well you can ha'e the poun' if you like, but I can tell you its a sore pinch to make things do, what with the price of the sugar riz up and the flour.
Samuel James comes in. He takes in the situation and seats himself again on the table near Ellen who remains still seated beside it.
William John Granahan.
There. That's enough to do about it.
He goes over to armchair but does not sit down and remains facing Mrs. Granahan.
Twenty nine poun' you'll get and no more.
Emphatically.
Min' that.
Mrs. Granahan.
I'll min' it right enough William Granahan. And its a sore time I have trying to keep in wi' one hand what you lavish out wi' the other.