And I suppose I lapsed into a regular business woman and only thought of money and how to increase it.
How horrid you must have thought me!" "Never did that," protested Turner, stoutly.
"But I know I learnt to think much too much about it," Mrs.St.Pierre Lawrence went on eagerly.

"And now that it is all gone, I do not care THAT for it." She snapped her finger and thumb and laughed gaily.
"Not that," she repeated.

She turned and glanced at Dormer Colville, raising her eyebrows in some mute interrogation only comprehensible to him.

"Shall I tell him ?" she asked, with a laugh of happiness not very far removed from tears.

Then she turned to the banker again.
"Listen," she said.