Leave her curiosity a good hard nut to crack.

Simply say you are off to Paris, and that if she'll go with you, you will bear all her expenses." "It's so difficult to believe that you are in earnest." "You must somehow bring yourself to believe it.

There will be a cheque ready for you to-morrow morning, to take or refuse.

If you take it, you are bound in honour to leave England not later than--we'll say Thursday.

That you are to be trusted, I believe, just as firmly as you believe it of me." "I can't decide to-night." "I can give you only till to-morrow morning.