The type was perhaps strange to her.

She was almost startled by what she saw.
Scarcely knowing what she did, she allowed him to take the note from her fingers.
"Thank you very much," she murmured.
Richard procured the change.

He would have lifted every one out of the way if she had been in a hurry.

Then he turned round and counted it very slowly into her hands.

From the left one she had removed the glove and he saw, to his relief, that there was no engagement ring there.