But at last, looking up, she said simply, "How rich ?" Newman expressed his income in a round number which had the magnificent sound that large aggregations of dollars put on when they are translated into francs.

He added a few remarks of a financial character, which completed a sufficiently striking presentment of his resources.
Madame de Bellegarde listened in silence.

"You are very frank," she said finally.

"I will be the same.

I would rather favor you, on the whole, than suffer you.