I always meant you should feel perfectly free to fix your salary to suit yourself.

Only be sure to come back in a week, won't you ?" "Good-bye," said Malcourt in a low voice.

"I'd like to talk to Hamil--if he can give me a few moments." Bareheaded, Hamil stepped out into the clear, crisp, April sunshine where the buckboard stood on the gravel.
The strong outdoor light emphasized Malcourt's excessive pallor, and the hand he offered Hamil was icy.

Then his nervous grasp relaxed; he drew on his dog-pelt driving gloves and buttoned the fur coat to the throat.
"I want you--to--to remember--remember that I always liked you," he said with an effort, in curious contrast to his habitual fluency.

"You won't believe it--some day.