"There was something about it, but I cannot just remember what. My second cashier, Mr. Smith, manages all my private affairs, and they go clean out of my head. I'm afraid he's in Grosvenor Square at this moment. Let me see;--Pickering! Wasn't there some question of a mortgage? I'm sure there was something about a mortgage."
"There was a mortgage, of course;--but that only made three payments necessary instead of two."
"But there was some unavoidable delay about the papers;--something occasioned by the mortgagee. I know there was. But you shan't be inconvenienced, Mr. Longestaffe."

"There was something about it, but I cannot just remember what. My second cashier, Mr. Smith, manages all my private affairs, and they go clean out of my head. Pickering! Wasn't there some question of a mortgage?"
"Of course there was a mortgage; that made three payments necessary instead of two."
"But there was some unavoidable delay about the papers; something occasioned by the mortgagee. I know there was. But you shan't be inconvenienced, Mr. Longestaffe."
