“None.”
“What! You have no money at the bankers?”
“A few hundreds, when I want as many thousands.”
“Have you no other security to borrow upon?”
“Not a shred.”
“What have you actually got with your wife at the present moment?”
“Nothing but the interest of her twenty thousand pounds—barely enough to pay our daily expenses.”
“What do you expect from your wife?”
“Three thousand a year when her uncle dies.”
“None.”
“What! You have no money at the bankers?”
“A few hundreds, when I want as many thousands.”
“Have you no other security to borrow upon?”
“Not a shred.”
“What have you actually got with your wife at the present moment?”
“Nothing but the interest of her twenty thousand pounds—barely enough to pay our daily expenses.”
“What do you expect from your wife?”
“Three thousand a year when her uncle dies.”
