"Certainly I will keep it," she agreed.
"Five days ago," Mr. Gluckstein informed her painfully, "my partner abthconded, and left me almosth a ruined man."
Her face expressed genuine sympathy.
"I am very sorry," she said feelingly. "What a dreadful blow for you."
"It ith unnethecessary to explain bithness details to you," the financier proceeded. "My working capital hath gone, and the fact thimply is that I cannot carry on—unleth——" he paused to give his words additional emphasis, "unleth you repay me my twelve thousand poundth in full within two months."
"Two months?" she exclaimed blankly.
"Two months," he repeatedly firmly. "That ith the utmost time I can give you. Have you any other means of raithing the money?"
"Not a ghost of one," she replied frankly. "I might as well try to push over the Marble Arch as raise a single thousand."
"Then," he said steadily, "if you do not marry Copplesthone I am a bankrupt—and a bankrupt I will not be."
"I shall marry him," she said. "I told you I should—and I shall. You will have your money."