I said, what would be the expense of this young female?
and Mrs.Crupp said she supposed eighteenpence would neither make me nor break me.

I said I supposed not; and THAT was settled.

Then Mrs.Crupp said, Now about the dinner.
It was a remarkable instance of want of forethought on the part of the ironmonger who had made Mrs.Crupp's kitchen fireplace, that it was capable of cooking nothing but chops and mashed potatoes.

As to a fish-kittle, Mrs.Crupp said, well! would I only come and look at the range?
She couldn't say fairer than that.

Would I come and look at it?
As I should not have been much the wiser if I HAD looked at it, I declined, and said, 'Never mind fish.' But Mrs.Crupp said, Don't say that; oysters was in, why not them?
So THAT was settled.