Say we've paid one pound twelve; so we still owe about six pound.' He added this amount to the list.
'I think it's a great pity we ever had the things at all,' he said, peevishly.

'It would have been better to have gone without until we could pay cash for them: but you would have your way, of course.

Now we'll have this bloody debt dragging on us for years, and before the dam stuff is paid for it'll be worn out.' The woman did not reply at once.

She was bending down over the cradle arranging the coverings which the restless movements of the child had disordered.

She was crying silently, unnoticed by her husband.
For months past--in fact ever since the child was born--she had been existing without sufficient food.