No doubt it was very characteristic to call the cloaks by their market value.
In the glen my scholars still talk of their school-books as the tupenny, the fowerpenny, the sax-penny.

They finish their education with the ten-penny.
Jess's opportunity for handling the garments that others of her sex could finger in shops was when she had guests to tea.

Persons who merely dropped in and remained to tea got their meal, as a rule, in the kitchen.

They had nothing on that Jess could not easily take in as she talked to them.

But when they came by special invitation, the meal was served in the room, the guests' things being left on the kitchen bed.
Jess not being able to go ben the house, had to be left with the things.