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There's one or two you couldn't cover with a threepenny bit. Captain Hunken especially; and it cost four-and-ninepence only last July, which makes the heart bleed." "They haven't quarrelled, have they?" asked Fancy. "Quarrelled? No, of course they haven't quarrelled. What put such a thing into your head, child?" "I don't know. . . . But I don't like this writin'; it's unnatural.
But for the moment comic songs proved weak implements in the search for ore, and the committee sitting in the green-room, used likewise as a dressing-room by the two ladies, counted out a miserable four-and-ninepence as the result of a week's hard labour.
Beaumont fumed before the small glass, arranging her earrings as if she anticipated losing them; Kate trembled and clung to her husband's arm, Montgomery cast sentimental glances of admiration at her, and Mortimer tried to think of something funny, while Dubois came to the point by asking: 'Well, what are you going to do with that four-and-ninepence? It isn't worth dividing.
I suppose we'd better drink it. At the mention of drinks Mr. Hayes blinked and shifted the black bag from the chair to the ground. 'Yes, that's easily arranged, said Dick, 'but what about the tour? I for one am not going on at four-and-ninepence a week. 'Sp-pend it in drinks, stuttered Mr. Hayes, awakening to a partial sense of the situation.
Everybody laughed, but in the pause that ensued, each returned to the idea that there was no use going on at four-and-ninepence a week. 'For we can't live on drink, although Beaumont can upon love, said Mortimer, determined to say something. But the joke amused no one, and for some time only short and irrelevant sentences broke the long silences.
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