The estate owes eleven thousand and has owed it since 1809, and the assize attached to the debt has been renewed by every clerk since without one of them reading it.

Mione reads it in a morning and puts it down and goes and stands by a window for a while.

MioneThere is a schedule of payment. It is not money. It has never been money. Somebody has been paying this in money for two hundred years and the assize does not accept money.

The schedule says: weight, in pounds, from the body of the debtor, taken in the hall, before the parish.