At half past ten the left pan is low and the right pan is high and the total stands at sixty-one pounds of two hundred.

CorvinaAn hour and a half. Neither of you can give a hundred. You will be unconscious before eighty and the assize does not accept unconscious.

MioneThen we are going to have to be extremely efficient about the next hundred and thirty-nine pounds.

Mione is grey at the mouth and her hands are shaking and she says it as though she were proposing a timetable.