Yes, you'd better take it.' Lady Maud had looked up quickly and had hesitated to receive the envelope, but when he finished speaking she took it quickly and slipped it into the opening of her long glove, pushing it down till it lay in the palm of her hand.

She fastened the buttons before she spoke.
'How thoughtful you always are for me!' She unconsciously used the very words with which she had thanked him in Hare Court the last time he had given her money.

The tone told him how deeply grateful she was.
'Well,' he said in answer, 'as far as that goes, it's for you yourself, as much as if I didn't know where it went; and if I'm obliged to sail suddenly I don't want you to be out of your reckoning.' 'You're much too good, Rufus.

Do you really mean that you may have to go back at once, to defend yourself ?' 'No, not exactly that.

But business is business, and somebody responsible has got to be there, since poor old Bamberger has gone crazy and come abroad to stay--apparently.' 'Crazy ?' 'Well, he behaves like it, anyway.