That's all it means.' He put the pencil to the paper again, and wrote the date of the meeting in Hare Court.
'There! If you sign your name to that, it just means that you had no further claim against me on that day.

You hadn't, anyway, so you may just as well sign!' He held out the paper, and Lady Maud took it with a smile and wrote her signature.
'Thank you,' said Mr.Van Torp.

'Now you're quite comfortable, I suppose, for you can't deny that you have given me the usual business acknowledgment.

The other part of it is that I don't care to keep that kind of receipt long, so I just strike a match and burn it.' He did so, and watched the flimsy scrap turn black on the stone knight's knee, till the gentle breeze blew the ashes away.

'So there!' he concluded.