‘I think that perhaps, Adolphus, you hardly understand these things.’

’No, I don’t.  I don’t understand much about business, I know.  What I want to understand is, when Melmotte is going to pay up this money.’

‘I suppose he’ll arrange it with the banks,’ said the father.

’I beg that he won’t arrange my money with the banks, sir.  You’d better tell him not.  A cheque upon his bank which I can pay in to mine is about the best thing going.  You’ll be in the city to-morrow, and you’d better tell him.  If you don’t like, you know, I’ll get Squercum to do it.’  Mr Squercum was a lawyer whom Dolly had employed of...