Of course, this meal is supper and tea combined.
If you tot all this up, you will find it has now reached the not inconsiderable sum of fifteen shillings and tenpence.

This is how the rich person like Celia lives.

There still remains a balance of four shillings and twopence to be expended on clothing, bus fares, insurance and amusement.

Quite an adequate--indeed, an ample sum.

At any rate, it seemed so to Celia, who, at present, was well set up with clothes, and found sufficient amusement in the novelty of her life and her surroundings; for, only a few months back, she had been living in comfort and middle-class luxury, with a larger sum for pocket-money than had now to suffice for the necessaries of existence.
The kettle was boiling, she set the tea; and while she was arranging in a vase--"Given away with every half-pound of our choice Congo!"-- the penny bunch of violets which she had been unable to resist, her lips were moving to the strains of the hackneyed but ever beautiful intermezzo in "Cavalleria Rusticana," which floated up from the room immediately underneath hers; but as she drew her chair up to the fire, the music of the violin ceased, and presently she heard footsteps ascending the stairs slowly.