But a feeling of reluctance, a sudden revolt against this intended generosity, arose in her.
"No, no," she said to herself.

"I'll give him ten dollars.

I'll tell him it's all I can afford.

It IS all I can afford." She hastened to finish the figure of the animal she was then at work upon, putting in the ears and tail with a drop of glue, and tossing it into the basket at her side.

Then she rose and went into the bedroom and opened her trunk, taking the key from under a corner of the carpet where she kept it hid.
At the very bottom of her trunk, under her bridal dress, she kept her savings.