If my purse weren't empty I would repay you.

Will you stay here till I can get some money from my hotel--the Hotel de Paris ?" She spoke with some vehemence.

How could the creature expect her to remain in his debt?
But the creature only passed his fingers through his upstanding hair and smiled wanly.
"Please don't say anything more about it.

It distresses me.

The croupiers don't return the stake, as a general rule, unless you ask for it.