"How are you to pay Mr. Haye?"
"By bills upon the consignees."
"Does the purchase swallow up all your means?"
"None of them," said Rufus impatiently. "I tell you, it is to be consummated by drawing bills in Haye's favour upon the consignees — Fleet, Norton & Co."
"Suppose the consignment don't pay?"
"It will pay, of course! Don't you suppose Haye knows what he is about?"
"Yes; but that don't satisfy me, unless I know it too."
"I do," said Rufus. "He takes an interest in me for my father's sake; and I think I may say without vanity, for my own; and he is willing to do me a kindness, which he can do without hurting himself. That is all; and very simple."
"Too simple," said Winthrop.
"What do you mean?"