Of course I know something must be." "But if it's something you can't find out, isn't it as good as if it were nothing ?" "I probably SHOULD find out as soon as I had paid for it." "Not," her host lucidly insisted, "if you hadn't paid too much." "What do you call," she asked, "little enough ?" "Well, what should you say to fifteen pounds ?" "I should say," said Charlotte with the utmost promptitude, "that it's altogether too much." The dealer shook his head slowly and sadly, but firmly.

"It's my price, madam--and if you admire the thing I think it really might be yours.
It's not too much.

It's too little.

It's almost nothing.

I can't go lower." Charlotte, wondering, but resisting, bent over the bowl again.