He approved of Gilbert's notion of advertising for the particulars of a possible marriage, and offered to bear his part in the expenses of the search for his granddaughter.
Gilbert smiled at this offer.
"You do not know what a worthless thing money is to me now," he said, "or now lightly I hold my own trouble or loss in this matter." He left Queen Anne's Court soon after this, after having promised Jacob Nowell to return and report progress so soon as there should be anything worth telling.

He went back to Wigmore Street heavy-hearted, depressed by the reaction that followed the vain hope which the silversmith's letter had inspired.

It mattered little to him to know the antecedents of Marian's father, while Marian's destiny remained still hidden from him..