She owed him now four thousand pounds.

She had no money of her own, she was already overdrawn with her allowance.

There was no chance of paying him.

She realised, with a little shudder, that he did not want payment, a realisation which had come to her dimly from the first, but which she had pushed away simply because she had felt sure of winning.
Now there was the price to be paid! She leaned further out of the window.

Away to her left the glow over the mountains was becoming stained with the faintest of pinks.