Suppose the money should give out before he came back?
One day, while she was disturbing herself by these questions, she went out shopping as usual.

When she had made her purchases she looked at her watch, and found that it had stopped.

She was too ignorant to know what was the matter with it.

She only knew that when she wound it up it would not go.
So she asked the dealer from whom she had bought her goods to direct her to a watchmaker.
The dealer gave her the address of a jeweller not far off.
She took her watch to "Messrs.

North and Simms, Watchmakers and Jewellers," and asked an elderly man behind the counter, who happened to be one of the firm, if he could make her watch "gae" while she waited for it in the shop.