"Yes;—I'm to be with him to-morrow, and he is to introduce me to the Board."
"You're going in for that, are you, sir? Do they pay anything?"
"I believe not."
"Nidderdale and young Carbury belong to it. It's a sort of Beargarden affair."
"A bear-garden affair, Adolphus. How so?"
"I mean the club. We had them all there for dinner one day, and a jolly dinner we gave them. Miles Grendall and old Alfred belong to it. I don't think they'd go in for it, if there was no money going. I'd make them fork out something if I took the trouble of going all that way."
"I think that perhaps, Adolphus, you hardly understand these things."
"No, I don't. I don't understand much about business, I know. What I want to understand is, when Melmotte is going to pay up this money."
"I suppose he'll arrange it with the banks," said the father.
"I beg that he won't arrange my money with the banks, sir. You'd better tell him not. A cheque upon his bank which I can pay in to mine is about the best thing going. You'll be in the city to-morrow, and you'd better tell him. If you don't like, you know, I'll get Squercum to do it." Mr. Squercum was a lawyer whom Dolly had employed of late years much to the annoyance of his parent. Mr. Squercum's name was odious to Mr. Longestaffe.