She listened not very attentively.
"I leave it all to you," she said, when he had finished. "I suppose you will think that is very cool of me; but I don't know what else I could do. That is, if you will undertake the business for me."
He nodded.
"I will do so, and not altogether disinterestedly, for I shall ask your permission to take some shares in the company."
"Why, yes, of course," she said at once. "I consider that it belongs as much to you as to me; you found it."
He shook his head, with a smile.
"Scarcely that," he said; "but I shall have an interest in it. We shall get to work at once, and I think I may say, positively, that you will be, as you put it, very rich, before many months are out."
"Very rich," she murmured; "thank you."
It was rather a strange way of accepting the information, but she was thinking of how little use the money would be if a certain person refused to share it with her.
Ralph Duncombe glanced at his watch and got up.