She was both angry and ashamed that she had been forced to apply to Anderson to cash the check.

"I have been everywhere, and nobody had as much as twenty-five dollars," she added.
Anderson heard a very faint chuckle, immediately covered by a cough, from Sam Riggs.

He began counting out the notes, being conscious that the man and the boy were regarding each other with meaning, that the boy's elbow dug the man's ribs.

He handed the money to Charlotte with a courteous bow, and she gave him in return the check, which was payable to her mother, and which had been indorsed by her.
"Thank you very much indeed," she said, but still in a piqued rather than very grateful voice.

She really had no suspicion that any particular gratitude was called for towards any one who cashed one of her father's checks.
"You are quite welcome," Anderson replied.
"It is a great inconvenience not having a bank in Banbridge," she remarked, accusingly, as she went out of the door with a slight nod of her pretty head.