"Is your allowance sufficient?
It has sometimes occurred to me that you wanted more--for some feminine extravagance." The light went out of her face.

He wondered whimsically if he had locked it in with the ruby, and once more he was conscious that something intangible floated between them.

But she looked at him squarely with her shadowed eyes.
"Oh, one could spend any amount, of course, but I really have quite enough." "You shall have double your present allowance when these cursed times improve.

And I have always intended to settle a couple of hundred thousand on you--a quarter of a million--as soon as I could realize without loss on certain investments.

But one day I want you to be quite independent." Her eyes had opened very wide.