"The water is gone!" she said.

"How strange!" "Perhaps it has gone to meet us at our rendezvous in the desert .-- No: if I tell your father, I should be unfaithful to my employers.

But there's another alternative: I can resign my appointment, and let my place be taken by another." "And give up your chance of a fortune?
You mustn't do that." "What is it to you what becomes of me ?" "I wish nothing but good to come to you," said she, in a low voice.
"I have never wanted to have a fortune until now.

And I must tell you the reason of that, too.

A man without a fortune does very well by himself.