"Why not?"
"The money won't be there at the end of three months, not if we pay them other things. And where's the hundred pounds of ready to come from?"
"That's your look-out."
"I haven't got it, George. Jones has it, I know; but I can't get it out of him."
"Jones got a hundred pounds! And where should Jones have gotten it?"
"I know we have been wrong, George; I know we have. But you can't wonder at me, George; can you? I did bring four thousand pounds into it; didn't I?"
"And now you haven't got a hundred pounds!"
"If I have it's as much as I can say. But Jones has it, and ever so much more. If Brisket will wait, we can frighten it out of Jones."
"If I know anything of human nature," said Robinson, "Brisket will not wait."
"He would, if you hadn't spoke to him that way. He'd say he wouldn't, and go away, and Maryanne would blow up; but I should have worked the money out of Jones at last, and then Brisket would have waited."