Paul was studying design.
Morel was always in good spirits on Friday evening, unless the week's earnings were small.

He bustled immediately after his dinner, prepared to get washed.

It was decorum for the women to absent themselves while the men reckoned.

Women were not supposed to spy into such a masculine privacy as the butties' reckoning, nor were they to know the exact amount of the week's earnings.

So, whilst her father was spluttering in the scullery, Annie went out to spend an hour with a neighbour.