If there had been anything to pay, _they_ would have mentioned it in the giving; _I_ would have mentioned it.

That is a fine point of etiquette, isn't it ?" Slowly there came a look into David's face which the other did not at first understand.

After a moment he said, without looking at the Missioner, and in a voice that had a curious hard note in it: "But for this ...

Marie will let me give her something in return--a little something I have no use for now?
A little gift--my thanks--my friendship...." He did not wait for the Missioner to reply, but went to one of his two leather bags.

He unlocked the one in which he had placed the photograph of the girl.