"I have my cheque-book in my pocket, and I am ready to pay over the hundred thousand dollars.

I know that you have the paper.

If you like to wait for ten minutes, you can have the money in dollars." "How do you know that I have the paper ?" she asked calmly.
"Your cousin, Miss Virginia, has been to our office," he answered.

"She thought, naturally, that you had brought it straight to us.

I don't know whether she seriously expected that we would give it up again, but that seemed to be the object of her visit.