 All had spent most of the day at Bull's house, apparently engaged in conversation, eating and drinking.At the inquest it was stated that the quarrel was over the bill (known as "the reckoning") for the day's events.Leslie Hotson, who first identified the documents relating to the inquest described Bull's house as a "tavern", leading to accounts of her as a kind of Mistress Quickly of Deptford "who is always ready to let a room for some disreputable purpose".