"Maybe your own embassy."
"Oh, the embassy!"
"It couldn't be anything but very unpleasant in Germany just now."
"Not for an American," she said.
"Even an American," he replied with an edge in his voice, "who has already overdrawn at the bankers' and whose cable can't, I should say, be answered in time."
A teasing, tricksy expression put her burdened seriousness to flight. "Of course I know, if I asked you, you'd lend me what I need."
"To go to Germany?"
"Well, wouldn't you?"
"No."
She smiled. A secret rapture escaped out of her eyes. "You wouldn't?" And then she seemed to put him to some test. "Julian is kinder."