He had paid her the four fifty-dollar notes actually traced, the night before she left, and said.

"You won't need to break these here, will you ?" He seemed anxious that she should not, but it was the merest accident that she hadn't.

In all, she had received from Mr Ormiston four hundred and fifty dollars.

No, she had no suspicion that the young man might not be in a position to make such payments.

She understood that Mr Ormiston's family was wealthy, and never thought twice about it.
She spoke with a hard dignity, the lady, and a great effect of doing business, a kind of assertion of the legitimate.