the guard watched this cavalier treatment of his raison d'etre with impassive contempt ; the pretty teller seemed fascinated ( her salary for five years was disappearing casually into the pockets of this man 's off-the-rack overcoat and it hardly made a bulge ) ; and the manager was looking at him with barely concealed dislike , because a bank was a place where money was supposed to be like god , unseen and reverentially regarded .