“If you've done it right it ought to be four thousand three hundred and three pounds and fifty pence.”
“Is that what you've got, dad?” The father glanced down at the paper in his hand. He seemed to stiffen. He became very quiet.
Then he said, “Say that again.” “Four thousand three hundred and three pounds fifty,” Matilda said.
There was another silence. The father's face was beginning to go dark red.
“I'm sure it's right,” Matilda said. “You... you little cheat!” the father suddenly shouted, pointing at her with his finger.
“You looked at my bit of paper! You read it off from what I've got written here!”
“Daddy, I'm the other side of the room,” Matilda said. “How could I possibly see it?”
“Don't give me that rubbish!” the father shouted. “Of course you looked! You must have looked!”
“No one in the world could give the right answer just like that, especially a girl!”
“You're a little cheat, madam, that's what you are! A cheat and a liar!”
At that point, the mother came in carrying a large tray on which were the four suppers.
This time it was fish and chips which Mrs Wormwood had picked up in the fish and chip shop on her way home from bingo.
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