"What is it you wish me to do?
Withdraw my account ?" "Not in the least," the manager answered hastily.
"You know the position of our market, of course," Laverick went on.
"Three days ago I was in a situation which might have been called desperate.

I could quite understand that you needed security to go on making the necessary payments on my behalf.

To-day, things are entirely different.

I am twenty thousand pounds better off, and if necessary I could realize sufficient to pay off the whole of my overdraft within half-an-hour.

That I do not do so is simply a matter of policy and prices." "I quite understand that, my dear Mr.Laverick," the bank manager declared.