The croupier pitched seven large gold coins across the table.

She clutched them feverishly and turned to deliver them to their owner.

He was nowhere to be seen.

She broke through the ring, and with her hands full of gold scanned the room in dismayed perplexity.
At last she espied him standing dejectedly by another table.

She rushed across the intervening space and held out the money.
"See, you have won!" "Oh, Lord!" murmured the man, removing his hands from his dinner-jacket pockets, but not offering to take his winnings.