The first household agreed to the cheaper account before the kitchen advice turn opened.
Asa knew because the woman came to tell her herself.
She stood at the clean end of the table with the new purchase book in her hand. It had Harrow House’s mark on the cover and a printed list of the goods the household would buy through the designated seller.
“I read it,” she said.
Asa set down the ladle.
“All of it?”
“Yes.”
“Then tell me what you chose.”
