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[starscrownher.livejournal.com]

Numbers don't lie. Sometimes they prevaricate.

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[piquedbutler.livejournal.com]

[]

As you say, I suppose, Miss.

[starscrownher.livejournal.com]

[It's possible that David should have given Chives this job.]

Can you explain, Master Five, why the kitchen budget is showing a deficit this month?

[oneirophiliac.livejournal.com]

How's that, then?

[starscrownher.livejournal.com]

The monthly budget is showing an unexplained deficit. Which I have to figure out, or...

Take to the king.

[There is not enough lineface in the world.]

[maidenthespade.livejournal.com]

I am not trusting them since grade school when they tell us there is no such thing as square root to negative one. Then next year they tell us about i. Numbers. They are sneaky.

[starscrownher.livejournal.com]

They're bitchy is what they are.

[Delete key forever, retype, recalculate, nooope. Still not working.]

Incredibly bitchy.

[brightbutler.livejournal.com]

Prevarication isn't much better than lies, in my experience.

[starscrownher.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to disagree with you there, darling.

...Tell me, have the Diamond kitchens ever run a deficit?

[nicky-thorson.livejournal.com]

Um, I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but what does that last word mean?

[starscrownher.livejournal.com]

Prevaricate means to evade, darling. The numbers are being evasive.

[sevenbyright.livejournal.com]

Oh? And what is it your numbers are being evasive about?

[These are still stressful times, but it is astonishing the difference that can be made in someone's well-being by an attentive butler serving Regular Meals in an office properly organized by a sharp, alert assistant.

There's something rather strange about Spades conspiring in favor of someone's improved health.]

[starscrownher.livejournal.com]

The kitchen budget. I've got Chives on it, though Isaac pointed out something I hadn't considered.

[She gives him a sharp look, but he does appear to be eating regularly, and the Jack's office has gone from veritable disaster area to organized with military precision.

The hand of one of their new additions, no doubt.]

We've gotten a number of new faces lately, and may need to...increase budgets accordingly. Have you got that on your plate, or should I go to David with that one still?

[spysinspades.livejournal.com]

[That gets his attention rather quickly.]

Is there something wrong?

[starscrownher.livejournal.com]

[People who do not need to overhear her muttering about accounting: the King of Spades. David has enough on his plate.]

Nothing that I can't handle, Your Majesty. A small matter of a deficit in the kitchen budget. Chives is looking into it.

[Translation: heads are already set to roll.]

[washtheblood.livejournal.com]

"You're the accountant, are you?" Also, the clinic was running now in Castle Spade which by the look of it had not been for some time but any large expenses he himself could easily take care of.

[starscrownher.livejournal.com]

"Someone has to be." Urania looks up and tips her head to one side. "Are there any acquisitions you need to make for the clinic, Doctor?" Because the budget deficit is relatively small, and in the kitchen. There's plenty of room elsewhere, and she might need to rework the whole damn thing anyway.

[piquedbutler.livejournal.com]

[]

As you say, I suppose, Miss.

[starscrownher.livejournal.com]

[It's possible that David should have given Chives this job.]

Can you explain, Master Five, why the kitchen budget is showing a deficit this month?

[oneirophiliac.livejournal.com]

How's that, then?

[starscrownher.livejournal.com]

The monthly budget is showing an unexplained deficit. Which I have to figure out, or...

Take to the king.

[There is not enough lineface in the world.]

[maidenthespade.livejournal.com]

I am not trusting them since grade school when they tell us there is no such thing as square root to negative one. Then next year they tell us about i. Numbers. They are sneaky.

[starscrownher.livejournal.com]

They're bitchy is what they are.

[Delete key forever, retype, recalculate, nooope. Still not working.]

Incredibly bitchy.

[brightbutler.livejournal.com]

Prevarication isn't much better than lies, in my experience.

[starscrownher.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to disagree with you there, darling.

...Tell me, have the Diamond kitchens ever run a deficit?

[nicky-thorson.livejournal.com]

Um, I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but what does that last word mean?

[starscrownher.livejournal.com]

Prevaricate means to evade, darling. The numbers are being evasive.

[sevenbyright.livejournal.com]

Oh? And what is it your numbers are being evasive about?

[These are still stressful times, but it is astonishing the difference that can be made in someone's well-being by an attentive butler serving Regular Meals in an office properly organized by a sharp, alert assistant.

There's something rather strange about Spades conspiring in favor of someone's improved health.]

[starscrownher.livejournal.com]

The kitchen budget. I've got Chives on it, though Isaac pointed out something I hadn't considered.

[She gives him a sharp look, but he does appear to be eating regularly, and the Jack's office has gone from veritable disaster area to organized with military precision.

The hand of one of their new additions, no doubt.]

We've gotten a number of new faces lately, and may need to...increase budgets accordingly. Have you got that on your plate, or should I go to David with that one still?

[spysinspades.livejournal.com]

[That gets his attention rather quickly.]

Is there something wrong?

[starscrownher.livejournal.com]

[People who do not need to overhear her muttering about accounting: the King of Spades. David has enough on his plate.]

Nothing that I can't handle, Your Majesty. A small matter of a deficit in the kitchen budget. Chives is looking into it.

[Translation: heads are already set to roll.]

[washtheblood.livejournal.com]

"You're the accountant, are you?" Also, the clinic was running now in Castle Spade which by the look of it had not been for some time but any large expenses he himself could easily take care of.

[starscrownher.livejournal.com]

"Someone has to be." Urania looks up and tips her head to one side. "Are there any acquisitions you need to make for the clinic, Doctor?" Because the budget deficit is relatively small, and in the kitchen. There's plenty of room elsewhere, and she might need to rework the whole damn thing anyway.