She saw a square room lit with electric bulbs in broad daylight.

It was the terminus of a multitude of shining brass tubes leading from counters the length of a street away, and, with an incessant popping, the tubes dropped a cascade of gold and silver before the cashiers, silent and absorbed in this river of coin.
She felt that she was looking at the heart of this huge machine for drawing money from the pockets of the multitude.

The "Silver Shoe", that poured a stream of golden coins into the pockets of the hunchback, fascinated her in a like manner.
They had talked for half an hour, intent on figures which Jonah dotted on the back of an envelope, when they were surprised by a sudden change in the light.

The sun was low in the sky, dipping to the horizon, where its motion seemed more rapid, as if it had gathered speed in the descent.

The sudden heat had thrown a haze over the sky, and the city with its spires and towers was transformed.