Margot has a number of second-hand textbooks for sale and offers them to Neville for $200. Neville says this is too much but he will pay $100 for them. Margot refuses. Neville telephones Margot the next day and says he will pay $200. Margot then tells him that she has sold the books to someone slse for $180. Discuss whether there is a contract in existence between the parties.
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