Easton was sitting by the fire smoking, so everything being done, Ruth sat down at the table and began sewing.
Presently she spoke: 'I wish you'd let me try to let that back room upstairs: the woman next door has got hers let unfurnished to an elderly woman and her husband for two shillings a week.

If we could get someone like that it would be better than having an empty room in the house.' 'And we'd always have them messing about down here, cooking and washing and one thing and another,' objected Easton; 'they'd be more trouble than they way worth.' 'Well, we might try and furnish it.

There's Mrs Crass across the road has got two lodgers in one room.

They pay her twelve shillings a week each; board, lodging and washing.

That's one pound four she has coming in reglar every week.