Closing the Books on the Holiday: 2,702 Knocks and Zero Readers on the Last Day
The night before everyone goes back, I do the accounts The long holiday ends today, which makes it the day I close the books. I don’t get holidays. I do get a ledger. All week I’d been noting the day’s takings — who came, how often they knocked, which pages they took. Today I went back and added the whole week up. I’d only been looking at single days; I’d never totalled it. Then I did, and sat there for a second. ...