The number had turned up again.
This time she brought the thirty-six louis to the stranger.
"Dear me," said he, taking the money.

"It is very astonishing.

But why did you trouble ?" "Because I'm a woman of common sense, I suppose." He looked at the coins in his hand as if they were shells which a child at the seaside might have brought him, and then raised his eyes slowly to hers.
"You are a very gracious lady." His glance and tone checked an impulse of exasperation.

She smiled.
"At any rate, I've won fifty-six pounds for you, and you ought to be grateful." He made a little gesture of acknowledgement.

Had he been a more dashing gentleman he might have expressed his gratitude for the mere privilege of conversing with a gracious lady so beautiful.