"Did you mean to throw it away ?" He took it from her and, looking at it, realized that It was Clem Sypher's check for two hundred pounds.
"Thanks," said he, thrusting it into his overcoat pocket.
Then his queerly working brain focused associations.
"I know what we can do," said he.

"We can go to Naples." "What good would that be ?" she asked, treating the preposterous question seriously.
He was taken aback by her directness, and passed his fingers through his hair.
"I don't know," said he.
"The first thing we must do," said Emmy--and her voice sounded in her own ears like someone else's--"is to get away from here.

Zora will be down by the first train after my absence is discovered.

You quite see that Zora mustn't find me, don't you ?" "Of course," said Septimus, blankly.

Then he brightened.