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What more do you expect? You ask for a perambulator as if it were a sixpenny-ha'penny toy! What would a perambulator cost?" She retained control enough to reply: "I I have a catalogue. The one I've marked I'd thought of is is three pounds ten." Osborn threw away restraint. "Three pounds ten!" he cried. "Within ten bob of a week's salary! Do you realise what you're asking?
It is probable that for the first time in his life he saw himself then as he really was. He was plain, of insignificant appearance, he was ill and tastelessly dressed. He stood there before the sixpenny-ha'penny mirror and drank the cup of humiliation. "Calling my tie, indeed!" the office-boy muttered, his smouldering resentment bringing him back to the attack.
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