My affairs are a trifle complicated and it would take some little time to make you understand how this would suit me.

In the meanwhile you can give me a mere I O U for the difference between what you sold at, and the price today, to be paid without interest and whenever it suits you.

It isn't very formal, but you will have to trust me." Barrington moved twice up and down the room before he turned to the younger man.

"Lance," he said, "when you first came here, any deal of this kind between us would have been out of the question.

Now, it is only your due to tell you that I have been wrong from the beginning, and you have a good deal to forgive." "I think we need not go into that," said Winston, with a little smile.
"This is a business deal, and if it hadn't suited me I would not have made it." He went out in another few minutes with a little strip of paper, and just before he left the Grange placed it in Maud Barrington's hands.
"You will not ask any questions, but if ever Colonel Barrington is not kind to you, you can show him that," he said.
He had gone in another moment, but the girl, comprehending dimly what he had done, stood still, staring at the paper with a warmth in her cheeks and a mistiness in her eyes..