...Damn. Well, he couldn't tell her what it was in guineas, as it wasn't worth a full one. However: "Listen, you. A private's paid one shilling a day -- not accounting for stoppages, of course. It's about as little as you can be paid, in the army. A Major gets fourteen times that."

And it still wasn't enough to properly kit oneself out as an officer, but he wasn't about to tell her that.