"In a month's time."
"Not until then? I wanted to go back to India next week."
"It can be sent after you."
A slow suspicious smile crept round the young man's lips; he looked more well-bred than he was.
"None of that," he said. "I don't stir until I get the cheque. I say, can't you give it me at once? It's mine."
"Not a day sooner than a month. I must take that time to realize so large a sum. You shall have it this day month."
"Beastly inconvenient. Parr will be in no end of a taking. I suppose there's no help for it, however."
"None."
"This is the 17th of June. Now you're not playing me a trick, are you? You'll pay me over that money all square on the 17th of July."