The money was sorely needed at the rectory, and Miriam drew freely enough on John Turner.
"You are an extravagant girl," said that astute financier to her, when they met at the house of Mrs.St.Pierre Lawrence, at Royan, in France.
"I wonder what you spend it on! But I don't trouble my head about it.
You need not explain, you understand.

But you can come to me when you want advice or help.

You will find me--in the background.

I am a fat old man, in the background.

Useful enough in my way, perhaps, even to a pretty girl with a sound judgment." There were many, who, like Loo Barebone, reflected that there were other worlds open to Miriam Liston.