He--he came to say good-bye." "Good-bye!" she repeated, her brows knitting with perplexity and trouble.

"Is he going?
Where?
Why?
Didn't you tell him that Mr.Brand, the lawyer, had--had paid the money and settled everything?
Oh, if I had only known it when I went to Derrick; if the letter had only come before, so that I could have told him there was no need for him to fear any--any trouble! But you told him, Percy ?" "Yes, of course I told him," he said, staring at his boots; "but he had made up his mind to go abroad; and--and, 'pon my soul, I think it's the best thing he could do." She looked down on him with a face still showing trouble and doubt.
"But--but, Percy, he hadn't any money; he admitted as much to me.

And I couldn't give him any." "That's all right," he said, clearing his throat.

"I--I saw to that.

I couldn't give him much, unfortunately; but I scraped together all I'd got.