Without a word, she opened the leather bag and dropped the key into it.

Jack's gratitude rushed innocently to an extreme which it had never reached yet.

"Oh!" he cried, "would you mind letting me kiss you ?" Mrs.Wagner drew back, and held up a warning hand.

Before she could express herself in words, Jack's quick ear caught the sound of footsteps approaching the door.

"Is she coming back ?" he cried, still suspicious of Madame Fontaine.