He remembered his former interview with her, and how he had been bested in it; so he made up his mind to acquiesce in time.

He went over to the table and sat down.

Taking a pen he turned to Miss Rowly and said: 'What shall I write ?' She answered calmly: 'Date it, and then say, "Received from Miss Laetitia Rowly the receipts for the following amounts from the various firms hereunder enumerated."' She then proceeded to read them, he writing and repeating as he wrote.
Then she added: '"The same being the total amount of my debts which she has kindly paid for me."' He paused here; she asked.
'Why don't you go on ?' 'I thought it was Stephen--Miss Norman,' he corrected, catching sight of her lorgnon, 'who was paying them.' 'Good Lord, man,' she answered, 'what does it matter who has paid them, so long as they are paid ?' 'But I didn't ask you to pay them,' he went on obstinately.

There was a pause, and then the old lady, with a distinctly sarcastic smile, said: 'It seems to me, young man, that you are rather particular as to how things are done for you.

If you had begun to be just a little bit as particular in making the debts as you are in the way of having them paid, there would be a little less trouble and expense all round.