Somebody was so good as to step in and pay the money--something and fourpence was the amount; I forget the pounds and shillings, but I know it ended with fourpence, because it struck me at the time as being so odd that I could owe anybody fourpence--and after that I brought them together. 
Somebody was so good as to step in and pay the money - something and fourpence; I forget the pounds and shillings - and after that I brought them together. 