"I have told you. The bill was originally given for fifteen hundred pounds—"
"For which I only had a thousand."
"I don't recollect now. At all events, it fell due; and fortunately I had not passed it away."
"Of course not. You promised to retain it in your portfolio."
"I don't recollect. You could not pay it; and I agreed to renew it—"
"On condition of making it sixteen hundred," said the baronet.
"I don't recollect," observed Greenwood again. "Now you come to me, and tell me that you can do nothing towards it. Things cannot go on so."
"But you knew very well, Greenwood, when you took it, that the day of payment might be rather distant."
"I don't recollect. You must bring me the six hundred, and I will renew for the thousand—without interest. There!"
"And where the devil am I to find six hundred pounds on a sudden like this?" exclaimed Sir Rupert.