They were married in the church in Vere Street, then went back to the house in Manchester Square, and within a couple of hours were on their road to Dover.

Through it all not a word was said about money.

At the last moment,--when he was free from fear as to any questions about his own affairs,--Lopez had hoped that the old man would say something.

"You will find so many thousand pounds at your bankers';"-- or, "You may look to me for so many hundreds a year." But there was not a word.
The girl had come to him without the assurance of a single shilling.
In his great endeavour to get her he had been successful.

As he thought of this in the carriage, he pressed his arm close round her waist.