"It's very sweet of you, of course, but were I you I should not talk about it to my father." "Why ?" asked Mrs.Jasher quickly.
"Because he thinks of nothing else, and both Archie and I are trying to get him off the subject.

The mummy is lost and poor Sidney is buried.
There is no more to be said." "Still, if a reward was offered--" "My father is too poor to offer a reward, and the Government will not do so.

And as people will not work without money, why--" Lucy completed her sentence with a shrug.
"I might offer a reward if the dear Professor will let me," said the widow unexpectedly.
"You! But I thought that you were poor, as we are." "I was, and I am not very rich now.

All the same, I have come in for some thousands of pounds." "I congratulate you.

A legacy ?" "Yes.