On Wednesday afternoon Annie took the bus into town to shop in the market. For an hour or so she would walk up and down between the stalls looking at everything, buying here and there, and __1__ a sharp lookout for the bargains that were something to be haD．And then, with all the __2__ she needs bought she would leave the market for the __3__ of the town to spend another hour __4__ she liked best, looking in furniture-shop windows.

    One Wednesday she found a __5__ shop full of the most delightful things, with a __6__ inviting anyone to walk in and look round without __7__ they had to buy something. Annie hesitated a moment __8__ stepping through the doorway where, almost at once, she stopped __9__ before a green armchair. There was a card on the chair which __10__ ,“This fine chair is yours for less than a pound a week,” and very small at the bottom, “Cash price eighty-nine pounds fifty.” A pound a week …Why, she could almost pay that out of her housekeeping money and never __11__ it!

    A voice at her shoulder made her __12__ .“Can I help you, Madam?” She looked __13__ at the assistant who had come softly to her __14__

“Oh, well, no,” she said, “I was just __15__ .”

“We have chairs of all kinds in the __16__ . If you'll just come up, you will find something to __17__ you.”

    Annie, worried at the thought of being __18__ to buy something she didn't __19__ , left the shop __20__ .