"The foolish amber beads you were persuaded into buying in the Burlington Arcade ?" Francesca.

"No, those were seven shillings, and they are splitting already." Salemina.

"Those soaps and sachets you bought on the way home the day that you left your purse in the cab ?" Francesca.

"No; they were only five shillings.

Oh, perhaps they lumped the two things; if seven and five are twelve, then that is just what they did.