Captain Cuttwater was good for L1,000, but he knew that he could not get more from him.

It would be bad borrowing, he thought, from Sir Gregory.

Intimate as he had been with that great man, he knew nothing of his money concerns; but he had always heard that Sir Gregory was a close man.

Sir Warwick, his other colleague, was in easy circumstances; but then he had never been intimate with Sir Warwick.

Norman--ah, if he had known Norman now, Norman would have pulled him through; but hope in that quarter there was, of course, none.