What mattered was that she could pay the outstanding bills in the village and also that she and Ellen could exist without starving while her father was away.
Because she was so pleased, she flung her arms around his neck, kissed him excitedly and cried,
“This is marvellous, Papa! Really marvellous! I was just wondering how I could tell you as I came home from the village that Mr. Dart had asked for us to pay him something on his long-outstanding account.”
“Now you can pay the lot!” the Professor said. “And all the other tradespeople to whom we may owe anything.”
“We owe a good deal,” Chandra said with a smile, knowing how absent-minded her father was about such things. “But everything will be all right now. Oh, Papa, I must go and tell Ellen!”
She ran off as she spoke to the small kit
