Ten pounds would scarcely cover them, and that did not include what I owed the doctor.
It was a serious business, without doubt.
Wallop's threat to insist on immediate payment, or else "show me up" before the partners and my other creditors, may have been mere bounce; but it may equally well have been in earnest, in which case I was ruined.
Jack's one solicitude that evening was to keep me from fretting too much.

But it is all very well to say, "Don't fret," and another thing to remove the cause of fretting.

And that we could neither of us do.
Jack had no money.

What little he had saved he had spent on books or sent home to Mrs Shield.

As for Mr Smith, senior, even if I had cared to ask him to help me, I knew he had barely enough to keep body and soul together.