"We'll see what Osborn says about coal yards and the alterations at mill." He went to his office and Janet sat quietly by the fire.

Her plot would work; Miss Osborn should not have Kit.
Bell made some calculations.

His money was getting short; he had bills to pay, and his stock of coal was large.

He could not hold it much longer, and since the Askews were bringing down large quantities of peat, there was no ground for imagining the dalesfolk would give way.

It looked as if he must meet them and he wrote a notice that coal would be delivered by the trailer lurry at a reduction of two-and-six a ton.
When he had put this in an envelope for the printers, Bell knitted his brows.