diff --git a/specs/payments/booking-with-a-discount-code.feature b/specs/payments/booking-with-a-discount-code.feature
index 5916dac756..d8c22c0f5b 100644
--- a/specs/payments/booking-with-a-discount-code.feature
+++ b/specs/payments/booking-with-a-discount-code.feature
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ Feature: A customer books with a discount code
       When a customer asks the price of a Pottery place with the code "TENOFF"
       Then the summary total is 10.00
       And the summary shows no discount line
+      And the summary never names "TENOFF"
+      And the summary reads exactly as it does for a Pottery place with no code
 
   @rule:payments.the-books-remember-what-a-code-was-used-for
   @surface:webhook
diff --git a/test/specs/steps/discount-codes.ts b/test/specs/steps/discount-codes.ts
index 29cb693d8c..9a1eef3c61 100644
--- a/test/specs/steps/discount-codes.ts
+++ b/test/specs/steps/discount-codes.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import {
   expectDiscountLine,
   organiserCreatesCode,
   priceSummary,
+  quoteFor,
   summaryTotal,
 } from "#test/specs/support/discount-codes.ts";
 import { sellPlacesAt } from "#test/specs/support/money.ts";
@@ -105,6 +106,22 @@ Then("the summary shows no discount line", function (this: TicketsWorld): void {
   expect(priceSummary(this)).not.toContain("-£");
 });
 
+Then(
+  "the summary never names {string}",
+  function (this: TicketsWorld, code: string): void {
+    expect(priceSummary(this)).not.toContain(code);
+  },
+);
+
+Then(
+  "the summary reads exactly as it does for a {word} place with no code",
+  async function (this: TicketsWorld, listing: string): Promise<void> {
+    // Word for word the same answer as someone who typed nothing gets: not
+    // even a general "we don't know that code" can hide in the difference.
+    expect(priceSummary(this)).toBe(await quoteFor(this, listing, ""));
+  },
+);
+
 When(
   "a customer books a {word} place with the code {string} and pays",
   codeJourney(customerPaysWithCode),
diff --git a/test/specs/support/discount-codes.ts b/test/specs/support/discount-codes.ts
index 72457b4b3c..74d7d1a837 100644
--- a/test/specs/support/discount-codes.ts
+++ b/test/specs/support/discount-codes.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,12 @@ import { fillInAndSend } from "#test/specs/support/form-controls.ts";
 import { listingNamed } from "#test/specs/support/listings.ts";
 import { minorUnits } from "#test/specs/support/money.ts";
 import { openBookingPage } from "#test/specs/support/public-booking.ts";
-import type { TicketsWorld } from "#test/specs/support/world.ts";
+import {
+  keepsAnswerAs,
+  requiredWorldValue,
+  type StoryJourney,
+  type TicketsWorld,
+} from "#test/specs/support/world.ts";
 import { completePaidCheckout } from "#test-utils/order-journey.ts";
 import { setupStripe } from "#test-utils/settings.ts";
 import type { TestBrowser } from "#test-utils/test-browser.ts";
@@ -68,18 +73,18 @@ const CUSTOMER = { email: "quoter@example.com", name: "Quote Asker" };
  * stands ready, the page is opened, and the rest is what the journey does
  * with the code the customer holds. */
 const fromBookingPage =
-  (
+  <Answer>(
     journey: (
       world: TicketsWorld,
       browser: TestBrowser,
       code: string,
-    ) => Promise<void>,
+    ) => Promise<Answer>,
   ) =>
   async (
     world: TicketsWorld,
     listingName: string,
     code: string,
-  ): Promise<void> => {
+  ): Promise<Answer> => {
     await setupStripe();
     return journey(
       world,
@@ -88,19 +93,38 @@ const fromBookingPage =
     );
   };
 
-/** The customer fills the booking page in with a code and presses the page's
- * own "Show total" button. What came back is kept for the summary steps. */
-export const customerAsksPrice = fromBookingPage(
-  async (world, browser, code) => {
-    await fillInAndSend(
-      browser,
-      { ...CUSTOMER, promo_code: code },
-      "Show total",
-    );
-    world.things.remember("told", "price summary", browser.currentHtml);
-  },
+/** Fill the booking page in with a code and press its own "Show total"
+ * button. What comes back is the site's whole answer, kept as sent — a word
+ * beside the table is as much a disclosure as a word inside it. */
+const askForTotal = async (
+  browser: TestBrowser,
+  code: string,
+): Promise<string> => {
+  await fillInAndSend(browser, { ...CUSTOMER, promo_code: code }, "Show total");
+  // A quote with no table is the site refusing to total the order, so the
+  // story stops here rather than reading a refusal as a summary.
+  requiredWorldValue(
+    browser.currentHtml.match(/<table class="order-summary">/)?.[0],
+    "the price summary",
+  );
+  return browser.currentHtml;
+};
+
+/** What every customer journey here is told: which listing, and the code the
+ * customer typed into the box (empty when they typed none). */
+type APlaceAndACode = [listingName: string, code: string];
+
+/** What the site answers when a place's price is asked for with a code — or,
+ * with the code left empty, without one. */
+export const quoteFor: StoryJourney<APlaceAndACode, string> = fromBookingPage(
+  (_world, browser, code) => askForTotal(browser, code),
 );
 
+/** The customer asks what a place costs with the code they hold, and keeps
+ * the answer for the story to read. */
+export const customerAsksPrice: StoryJourney<APlaceAndACode, void> =
+  keepsAnswerAs("price summary", quoteFor);
+
 /** The summary the customer was last shown. */
 export const priceSummary = (world: TicketsWorld): string =>
   world.things.require("told", "price summary");
@@ -117,8 +141,8 @@ export const summaryTotal = (world: TicketsWorld): string => {
 /** The customer books with a code and pays. The booking page's own form
  * builds the checkout, and the payment completes through the provider — so
  * the code the customer typed is the one the books record. */
-export const customerPaysWithCode = fromBookingPage(
-  async (_world, browser, code) => {
+export const customerPaysWithCode: StoryJourney<APlaceAndACode, void> =
+  fromBookingPage(async (_world, browser, code) => {
     const captured: { intent: unknown } = { intent: null };
     const sessionId = "cs_discount_code";
     const checkoutStub = stub(
@@ -148,8 +172,7 @@ export const customerPaysWithCode = fromBookingPage(
       captured.intent as Parameters<typeof completePaidCheckout>[0],
       sessionId,
     );
-  },
-);
+  });
 
 /** The exact money words the story's own numbers come to, e.g. "£9.00". */
 export const asMoney = (pounds: string): string =>
diff --git a/test/specs/support/site-pages.ts b/test/specs/support/site-pages.ts
index af197068a2..4ce997454b 100644
--- a/test/specs/support/site-pages.ts
+++ b/test/specs/support/site-pages.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ import {
   type ActOnOneThing,
   type AsksAboutOneThing,
   asksIfThereIs,
+  keepsAnswerAs,
+  type StoryJourney,
   type TicketsWorld,
 } from "#test/specs/support/world.ts";
 import { adminFormPost } from "#test-utils/session.ts";
@@ -171,17 +173,10 @@ export const ownerTakesPageDown: TakesOneThingDown = takesDownFromList(
 
 /** The owner tries to take a page down, and what they were told is kept for
  * the step that reads it back. */
-export const ownerTriesToTakePageDown = async (
-  world: TicketsWorld,
-  name: string,
-  typed: string,
-): Promise<void> => {
-  world.things.remember(
-    "told",
-    OWNER,
-    await ownerTakesPageDown(world, name, typed),
-  );
-};
+export const ownerTriesToTakePageDown: StoryJourney<
+  [name: string, typed: string],
+  void
+> = keepsAnswerAs(OWNER, ownerTakesPageDown);
 
 /** What the owner was told the last time they wrote a page. */
 export const whatOwnerWasTold = (world: TicketsWorld): string =>
diff --git a/test/specs/support/world.test.ts b/test/specs/support/world.test.ts
index e0239c2b3e..85506ed680 100644
--- a/test/specs/support/world.test.ts
+++ b/test/specs/support/world.test.ts
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@
 // jscpd:ignore-start
 import { expect } from "@std/expect";
 import { describe, it as test } from "@std/testing/bdd";
+import { namedThings } from "#test/specs/support/memory.ts";
 import {
   asksIfThereIs,
+  keepsAnswerAs,
   stillThere,
   type TicketsWorld,
   theBooking,
@@ -81,4 +83,27 @@ describe("the story's shared lookups", () => {
       expect(asked).toEqual(["Parking"]);
     });
   });
+
+  describe("keeping what a journey answered", () => {
+    const worldRemembering = (): TicketsWorld =>
+      worldWith({ things: namedThings() });
+
+    test("keeps the answer under the name the story reads it by", async () => {
+      const world = worldRemembering();
+      await keepsAnswerAs("price summary", () => Promise.resolve("£9.00"))(
+        world,
+      );
+      expect(world.things.require("told", "price summary")).toBe("£9.00");
+    });
+
+    test("hands the journey the world and everything after it", async () => {
+      const given: unknown[] = [];
+      const world = worldRemembering();
+      await keepsAnswerAs("page", (...args: unknown[]) => {
+        given.push(...args);
+        return Promise.resolve("gone");
+      })(world, "Directions", "directions");
+      expect(given).toEqual([world, "Directions", "directions"]);
+    });
+  });
 });
diff --git a/test/specs/support/world.ts b/test/specs/support/world.ts
index 75ae26bacd..f64baa7182 100644
--- a/test/specs/support/world.ts
+++ b/test/specs/support/world.ts
@@ -169,6 +169,26 @@ export const addDatabaseCleanup = (
   world.cleanup.add(clearEncryptionKey, cleanupDb);
 };
 
+/** Something a story does to the site: told the world it works in and
+ * whatever else that journey needs, answering with words — a price summary,
+ * what the site said — or with nothing at all. */
+export type StoryJourney<Args extends unknown[], Answer> = (
+  world: TicketsWorld,
+  ...args: Args
+) => Promise<Answer>;
+
+/** Wrap a journey that answers with words, so the answer is kept under the
+ * name the story reads it back by. The journey itself stays about doing the
+ * thing; remembering what came back is this one step's job. */
+export const keepsAnswerAs =
+  <Args extends unknown[]>(
+    name: string,
+    journey: StoryJourney<Args, string>,
+  ): StoryJourney<Args, void> =>
+  async (world, ...args) => {
+    world.things.remember("told", name, await journey(world, ...args));
+  };
+
 export const requiredWorldValue = <Value>(
   value: Value | null | undefined,
   name: string,