I feel convinced that nothing which I say to you will be repeated outside this office, or will be allowed to dwell in your own mind except with reference to this particular transaction between you and me.

I have the right, have I not, to take that for granted ?" "Most certainly," the banker agreed.
"From a strictly ethical point of view," Laverick went on, "this money is not mine.

I hold it in trust for its owner, but I hold it without any conditions.

I have power to make what use I wish of it, and I choose to-day to use it on my own behalf.

Whether I am justified or not is scarcely a matter, I presume, which concerns this excellent banking establishment over which you preside so ably.
I do not pay these bank-notes in to my account and ask you to credit me with twenty thousand pounds.