All that night I lay awake thinking, thinking.

Next day, at a time when I knew Raoul would be working in his office, I went to see him there, and cheered him up as well as I could.

I told him that in a few days I hoped to have eighteen or twenty thousand pounds in my hands--all for him.

To let him have the money would make me happier than I'd ever been.

At first he said he wouldn't take it from me--I knew he would say that! But, at last, after I'd cried and begged, and persuaded, he consented; only it was to be a loan, and some how, some time, he would pay me back.