She wants to see the world for instance.

I should like to put money in her purse." "Ah, I'm glad you've thought of that," said the old man.

"But I've thought of it too.

I've left her a legacy--five thousand pounds." "That's capital; it's very kind of you.

But I should like to do a little more." Something of that veiled acuteness with which it had been on Daniel Touchett's part the habit of a lifetime to listen to a financial proposition still lingered in the face in which the invalid had not obliterated the man of business.