'There are your initials on it.' She glanced at the envelope, and saw that it was marked in pencil with the letters M.L.in one corner.
'Thank you,' she said, but she did not open it.
'You'd better count the notes,' suggested the millionaire.

'I'm open to making mistakes myself.' The lady took from the envelope a thin flat package of new Bank of England notes, folded together in four.

Without separating them she glanced carelessly at the first, which was for a hundred pounds, and then counted the others by the edges.

She counted four after the first, and Mr.Van Torp watched her face with evident amusement.
'You need more than that, don't you ?' he asked, when she had finished.
'A little more, perhaps,' she said quietly, though she could not quite conceal her disappointment, as she folded the notes and slipped them into the envelope again.

'But I shall try to make this last.