"I haven't a penny," she said, "but I'll give you this." He sat up quickly.

"Even at that price, my thoughts might cost you too much.

But you haven't told me what you have done with our dear friend the professor?
Haven't you a guilty conscience, deserting him like this ?" Kitty held up both hands in a gesture of dismay.

"Don't, Patches, please don't.

Ugh! if you only knew how good it is to be with a _man_ again!" He laughed aloud in a spirit of reckless defiance.