Half Graybrooke's fortune
happens to be just forty thousand pounds!" He took a turn in the room.
No! It was impossible to apply to Sir Joseph. Once shake Sir Joseph's
conviction of his commercial solidity, and the marriage would be
certainly deferred--if not absolutely broken off. Sir Joseph's fortune
could be made available, in the present emergency, in but one way--he
might use it to repay his debt. He had only to make the date at which
the loan expired coincide with the date of his marriage, and there
was his father-in-law's money at his disposal, or at his wife's
disposal--which meant the same thing. "It's well I pressed Graybrooke
about the marriage when I did!" he thought. "I can borrow the money at a
short date. In three months from this Natalie will be my wife."
He drove to his club to get breakfast, with his mind cleared, for the
time being, of all its anxieties but one.
Knowing where he could procure the loan, he was by no means equally sure
of being able to find the security on which he could borrow the
money.
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