‘It’s always important to have a lot of money.  I know that.’

’I shouldn’t have gone in for this kind of thing if I hadn’t thought I was sure.  You know how much you owe me, don’t you?’

‘Not in the least.’

‘It’s about eleven hundred pounds!’

‘I shouldn’t wonder.’

’And Miles Grendall owes me two thousand.  Grasslough and Nidderdale when they lose always pay with Miles’s I.O.U.’s.’

‘So should I, if I had them.’

’It’ll come to that soon that there won’t be any other stuff going, and they really ain’t worth anything.  I don’t see what’s the use of...