“Lastly, Cosnet is to buy flowers for the Chapel. It may not be as clean as we would like, but he promises to do his best and we don’t want anyone else to know what occurred last night until the money is safely in the hands of the Bank Manager.”
“That is so sensible of you,” said Benina. “As you say, David, it would be dreadful if anyone held us up and prevented us reaching the Bank.”
She need not have worried, as everything went just as David had planned.
It was only as the men carried the trunks into the Bank Manager’s private room that he thought Mr. Morley would have a stroke when he saw what they contained.
“I can scarcely believe my eyes, my Lord. It seems impossible that so much money, which has been hidden for so long, has come back to us.”
“Now it is back in your keeping a
