Was that not a present?

After the morning prayer, still in the corridor Cor came to me and without giving any chance to refuse it he pushed me a banknote. "To refund the photo album." Surrounded by dozens of brothers I did not dare to express my objection. The day before yesterday was her birthday. I went to congratulate her with a tiny pot of lucky bamboo promising her the album that had not been ready yet by then. The next day I gave it her and meant it as another present.