He turned his sightless eyes upon her, evidently without seeing her, and, fighting against the desire to cry out, she led him gently back to his room.
He woke as they crossed the threshold, woke and looked at her in a stupefied fashion.
"Are you ill, father?
Is there anything you want ?" she asked, as calmly as she could.
"No," he replied.

"I am quite well; I do not want anything.

I was going to bed--why have you called me ?" She remained with him for a few minutes, then left the room, turning the key in the door.

When she had gone he stood listening with his head on one side; then he opened his hand and looked with a cunning smile at the five-pound note which had been tightly grasped in it.
"She didn't see it; no, she didn't see it!" he muttered; and he went stealthily to the bed and thrust it under the pillow..