"No. I could get only sixty pounds."
"Not in gold?"
"Forty in sovereigns, twenty in half-sovereigns."
"You were uncommon lucky; but Miss Greta will have to give you back that sixty pounds, or the inspector will take it away at the station."
"Oh, surely not!"
"Beyond a doubt. They don't allow more than twenty pounds to be taken out of the country, and that mustn't be in gold."
She stared. "What do people do who have hundreds of pounds in your banks?"
"They have to leave it behind till the end of the war."
"Not Americans?"
Nobody, he said significantly, would be allowed to carry English gold to Germany.