My wife's brother Andrew left it, sir, and a very handsome legacy too." John Girdlestone smiled with the indulgent smile of one to whom such a sum was absolutely nothing.
"What have you done with the money, then, John ?" he asked carelessly.
"Banked it, sir, in the United Metropolitan." "In the United Metropolitan, John?
Let me see.

Their present rate of interest is three and a half ?" "Three, sir," said John.
"Three! Dear me, John, that is poor interest, very poor indeed.

It is most fortunate that I made these inquiries.

I was on the point of drawing fourteen hundred pounds from one of my correspondents as a temporary convenience.

For this I should pay him five per cent.