‘Don’t talk nonsense!’
He clasped his head in his hands, and leaned across the table.
‘It has never happened before,’ he said, ‘to be overdrawn. It is a disgrace.’
I said:
Cousin John was overdrawn quite often; I don’t think it mattered much.’
He said:
‘Damn your Cousin John! They have capital behind them. We have not.’
I said:
‘I have a little, Walter; couldn’t we use that?’
He said: