Neville describes mailing a letter with four or five hundred dollars in dividend and other checks to his bank, dropping it in the corner mailbox on the preceding Tuesday around midday. By the time of this Friday lecture, though the bank was barely two miles away and always sent back a deposit receipt, nothing had come back yet. He uses the story to illustrate patient, unworried trust: having done the asking, one simply waits for the appointed hour rather than doubting the outcome.