Try as she might, it would not stretch itself over the expenses of even the humblest establishment of three.

She was much comforted, however, by the reflection that there remained a large sum to their credit in the bank.

Primrose found her faith shaken in the capacities of an income of thirty pounds a year; but a sum total of two hundred pounds she still believed to be almost inexhaustible.

She resolved to go and consult Mr.Danesfield on the morrow.
Mr.Danesfield was generally to be found in his private room at the bank by ten o'clock in the morning.

Very soon after that hour on the following day a clerk came to say that one of the young ladies from Woodbine Cottage wanted to see him.