And another principle of modern finance with which I am heartily in sympathy is that money should be kept in circulation.

It encourages embezzlement to leave it in banks too long." Then, seeing what was gathering, she said quietly but authoritatively: "Leave it unsaid, Ann.

Can't we always just leave it unsaid?
Nothing makes me so uncomfortable as to feel I'm constantly in danger of having something nice said to me." Perhaps Katie knew that countries of make-believe are sensitive things, that it does not do to admit you know them for that.
There had been that one time when the hand of reality reached savagely into the dream, as if the things the girl had run away from had come to claim her.

It seemed through that long night that they had claimed her, that Ann's "vacation" was over.
Captain Prescott had been dining with them that night and after dinner they were sitting out on the porch.

He was humming a snatch of something.
Katie heard a chair scrape and saw that Ann had moved farther into the shadow.