The second held four hundred dollars saved from her earlier drafting work in Cranston.

The third envelope held the two hundred dollars left from her food savings.

She unfolded the bills and counted the stack twice under the desk lamp.

The cash on the table came to twelve hundred dollars.

Caroline took a clean sheet of paper from her sketchbook and wrote down the hospital admission requirement of three thousand dollars.

She subtracted twelve hundred dollars from the three-thousand-dollar total.

The figure at the bottom of the sheet showed she was eighteen hundred dollars short of the hospital admission fee.