Possible Clues:

• Bearing with a person making advances? Fine!
• Negligible
• Bearing with the individual supplying the money, and that's fine
• Pleasingly thin
• Gracefully thin and elegant
• South Bank is remote
• Slim chance of getting a loan for one like this at last
• Not a bit thick to be so dismissive about fifty
• Slim chance of being able to borrow from the last of it
• Spare a bob - by one having plenty to spare