four-and-sixpence-a-week

Updated: June 7, 2025

Yet Denry neither liked Mr Cotterill nor trusted him. The next incident in these happening was that Mrs Machin received notice from the London firm to quit her four-and-sixpence-a-week cottage. It seemed to her that not merely Brougham Street, but the world, was coming to an end. She was very angry with Denry for not protecting her more successfully.

Arnold Bennett - The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns