Why not?
The journey uptown was most excruciatingly long, in spite of the fact that he had met no one he knew either at the office or outside.

At last he arrived home, to find Constance waiting anxiously.
"Did you get a check ?" she asked, hardly waiting for his reply.

"Let me see it.

Give it to me." The coolness with which she went about it amazed him.

"It has the amount punched on it with a check punch," she observed as she ran her quick eye over it while he explained his plan.