Then he laughed with genuine amusement.
"True," he said.

"An instrument you were; but an instrument of Heaven, whereas in me you but behold the instrument of an earthly power.

We are not quite quits, you see." But she felt, at least, that she was quits with him in the matter of his repudiation of her own thanks, and the feeling bridged the unfriendly gap that she had felt was opening out between them; and for no reason in the world that she could think of, she was glad that this was so..