His wages were to be raised to thirty shillings at the year-end, if things went well.
Still on Friday night Miriam often came down for her French lesson.

Paul did not go so frequently to Willey Farm, and she grieved at the thought of her education's coming to end; moreover, they both loved to be together, in spite of discords.

So they read Balzac, and did compositions, and felt highly cultured.
Friday night was reckoning night for the miners.

Morel "reckoned"-- shared up the money of the stall--either in the New Inn at Bretty or in his own house, according as his fellow-butties wished.
Barker had turned a non-drinker, so now the men reckoned at Morel's house.
Annie, who had been teaching away, was at home again.

She was still a tomboy; and she was engaged to be married.