He answered, with dignity: "You are very kind, pet; but do not think of
that, I beg of you. You would hurt my feelings."
She was silent, and then clasping him in her arms, murmured: "You will
never know how much I love you."
It was one of their most pleasant evenings.
As she was leaving, she remarked, smilingly: "How nice it is when one is
in your position to find money you had forgotten in your pocket--a coin
that had worked its way between the stuff and the lining."