" You're making everyone crazy." " Then he reached out and took my plumb line, and my level and my account book, and he walked back down to Korphe, " Mortenson says.
And if his stock was in such condition, what mustn't his accounts be! I'll look at his account book now, she thought and, picking up the lamp, she went into the front of the store.
All these facts lie somewhere, presumably, in parish registers and account books; the life of the average Elizabethan woman must be scattered about somewhere, could one collect it and make a book of it.