Yes, she knew the value of money; she had always in the end got the things she wanted, but now she could get them more easily, and it turned her simple life into a fairy tale.

So often in those days she went down suddenly upon her knees; we would come upon her thus, and go away noiselessly.

After her death I found that she had preserved in a little box, with a photograph of me as a child, the envelopes which had contained my first cheques.

There was a little ribbon round them..