This would be better for you, in any case.

Two hundred and fifty pounds is not an unheard-of sum for you to have saved or got together.

After that your investments would be my lookout, and they would produce, as I have said, another seven hundred and fifty pounds.

But what security have I--has Mr.
Morrison, let us say--that you will be content with this sum ?" "He hasn't any, sir," the man admitted at once.

"He couldn't have any.