“Is it necessary, Miss Prentice, that you have this money at once?”
“No—I can’t say that. Why?”
He hesitated and the color swept hotly over his face.
“It will be an accommodation to us if you will wait a few days.”
“In what way?”
Her calmness reassured him and he replied with a little less constraint:
“This is a large sum for a small bank, and I don’t mind telling you confidentially that the payment of this check will leave us a little—er—short.”
Kate raised her beautifully arched eyebrows and questioned:
“Yes?”