"I think I may almost say so." Miss Garland walked along in silence.

"Do you mean to do a great deal for him ?" she asked at last.
"What I can.

But my power of helping him is very small beside his power of helping himself." For a moment she was silent again.

"You are very generous," she said, almost solemnly.
"No, I am simply very shrewd.

Roderick will repay me.