"I don't care how you get the money. If you know what is best for yourself, you'll get it somehow and somewhere."
"I thought you were wealthy, Mr. Schuyler. I didn't think you would press me like this."
"I am wealthy, but as I told you I have met with some losses recently, or I would have given you more time on this debt."
"Suppose I can't pay you?"
"Then you will have to take the consequences."
"That means that you will go to my father?"
"Not alone that. I will let it be known everywhere that you have refused to pay a debt of honor and that will exclude you from the society of gentlemen."
Edgar was unprepared to go further, and he thought it time to obtain Mark's assistance.
"Let us go into the reading room," he said. "Perhaps we can settle the matter there."
"All right! I want to be easy with you, and I will agree to take off ten dollars if you will pay me the balance."