Financiers and company jobbers seem rather shy of a man who gives Lemoine's boarding-house as his address, and some of them are not quite civil when they hear what he has to say to them.

In fact, I'm afraid that I shall have to give them up in a day or two." It was evident that he took his defeat quietly; but Ida thought that she knew what that quietness cost.
"How are you going to get back ?" she asked.
She felt that it was rather a cruel question, for this was not the man to give up while he had a dollar in hand, and she was sure that he was going back to search for the mine again.

Still, in one respect, she was a little vexed with him.

His self-control was excellent, but there was rather too much of it.
"That," he said, with a whimsical twinkle in his eyes, "is a point that will require rather careful consideration." Ida liked his smile, but the desire to startle him out of his reticence in one way or another became suddenly irresistible, and she changed the subject abruptly.
"I told you I was going to England," she said.

"I wonder whether you would be surprised to hear that I spent a month or two at Scarthwaite Hall ?" Weston did not seem exactly astonished, but he was clearly disconcerted and off his guard.
"I heard that you did," he said.
"Then you know that I met your father and sister and didn't keep my promise, or, at least, that I didn't do what you wanted me to ?" "Yes," said Weston simply.
His quietness was too obvious, and she felt that it covered a good deal.
"One of them wrote you ?" she asked.
"Yes," admitted Weston, "my father indulged in a few reproaches.