I am quite satisfied to remain in your hands, but my feeling in the matter is exactly as I have stated, and I cannot change.

If you are to retain my account, my engagements for to-day must be met precisely in the way I have pointed out." The banker excused himself and left the room for a few moments.
When he returned, he shrugged his shoulders with the air of one who is giving in to an unreasonable client.
"It shall be as you say, Mr.Laverick," he announced.

"The notes are placed upon deposit.

Your engagements to-day up to twenty thousand pounds shall be duly honored." Laverick shook hands with him, talked for a moment or two about indifferent matters, and strolled back towards his office.

He had rather the sense of a man who moves in a dream, who is living, somehow, in a life which doesn't belong to him.