But--" "But it's nonsense," said Agatha.

"I never gave you three half-crowns." "Perhaps you mout 'a' made a mistake.

Pence is summat similar to 'arf-crowns, and the day were very dark." "I couldn't have," said Agatha.

"Jane had my purse all the earlier part of the week, Miss Wilson, and she can tell you that there was only threepence in it.

You know that I get my money on the first of every month.