What salary did my cousin pay you for your remarkable services?
CARVE. What salary?
CYRUS. What salary?
CARVE. Eighty pounds a year.
CYRUS. When were you last paid?
CARVE. I--I----
CYRUS. When were you last paid?
CARVE. The day before yesterday.
CYRUS. (Taking a note and gold from his pocket-book and pocket.)
Here's seven pounds--a month's wages in lieu of notice. It's rather more
than a month's wages, but I can't do sums in my head just now. (Holding
out money.)
CARVE. But listen----
CYRUS. (Commandingly.) Take it.
(CARVE obeys.)
Pack up and be out of this house within an hour.
CARVE. I----
CYRUS. I shall not argue.... Did your master keep his private papers and
so on in England or somewhere on the Continent--what bank?
CARVE. What bank? He didn't keep them in any bank.
CYRUS. Where did he keep them then?
CARVE. He kept them himself.
CYRUS. What--travelling?
CARVE. Yes. Why not?
CYRUS. (With a "tut-tut" noise to indicate the business man's mild
scorn of the artist's method's.
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