Clearly she was disappointed and surprised, but made no remark to Austin.
A couple of days passed without anything of importance happening, except that she wrote again to her bankers and looked out anxiously for their reply.

But none came, and she grew irritable and disturbed.
It really was most extraordinary; she had always thought that bankers were so shrewd, and prompt, and business-like, and yet here they were, treating her as though she were of no account whatever, and actually leaving her second letter without an answer.

The affair was pressing, too.

There was certain to be a perfect rush for shares in so exceptional an undertaking, and when once they were all allotted, of course up they'd go to an enormous premium, and all her chances of investing would be lost.

It was too exasperating for words.