noon
Yet they dallied on in the way of young love and drove up to the bank just before it closed . When Adelle in her nonchalant manner asked the young man at the window to give her five thousand francs in notes , she received a great shock -- the worst shock of her life . The young cashier , who had paid out to her through the little brass _ guichet _ many tens of thousands of pretty white notes and gold-pieces , informed her that he could not give her any money . It developed , under a storm of exclamation and protest , that only that noon the bankers had received a cablegram from their correspondent in America curtly directing them not to cash further drafts drawn by Miss Clark against the Washington Trust Company . The magic lamp had gone out most inopportunely ! In vain Adelle expostulated , declared there was a mistake , even introduced to the cashier `` my husband , '' who looked uncomfortable , but tried to assume authority and demanded reasons for the bank 's treatment of his wife . All the reason lay in that brief cablegram .