"It is work done for love instead of for payment.

However, I will do what you ask if the opportunity arises; but I shan't suppose that I am repaying your kindness to me." "I don't mind, so long as you do it," I said, and we walked on for some time in silence.
"Isn't it odd," she said presently, "how our talk always seems to come back to my uncle?
Oh, and that reminds me that the things he gave to the Museum are in the same room as the Ahkhenaten relief.

Would you like to see them ?" "Of course I should." "Then we will go and look at them first." She paused, and then, rather shyly and with a rising colour, she continued: "And I think I should like to introduce you to a very dear friend of mine--with your permission, of course." This last addition she made hastily, seeing, I suppose, that I looked rather glum at the suggestion.

Inwardly I consigned her friend to the devil, especially if of the masculine gender; outwardly I expressed my felicity at making the acquaintance of any person whom she should honour with her friendship.

Whereat, to my discomfiture, she laughed enigmatically; a very soft laugh, low-pitched and musical, like the cooing of a glorified pigeon.
I strolled on by her side, speculating a little anxiously on the coming introduction.