It might hurt her to take his personal gifts, but that was all she had ever had from him; he had never granted her a set allowance; for every penny she must needs ask and look grateful.

It would be no fault of hers if she had to strip her fingers for passage-money.

Yet the exigency troubled her; it touched her honor, to say nothing of her pride; and, after an unforeseen fit of irresolution, Rachel suddenly determined to tell her husband of her difficulty, making direct appeal to the capricious generosity which had been recalled to her mind as an undeniably redeeming point.

It was true that he had given her hearty leave to go to the uttermost ends of the earth, and highly probable that he would bid her work her own way.

She felt an impulse to put it to him, however, and at once.
She looked at her watch--it at least had been her mother's--and the final day was already an hour old.