“And I think I may truly say, dear,” replied he, in the gentlest of voices, “that as long as I have plenty you have plenty too.”
Lady Sarah sat up quickly.
“I haven’t any now,” she said. “I’ve come back without a cent! Look here. That’s my very last sovereign!”
And opening her great brown eyes with a charming plaintiveness, she turned inside out a gold chain bag studded with pearls, which she wore suspended round her neck at the end of a very long chain, and displayed in triumph the solitary coin.
She was shrewd enough not to like the expression she saw on her husband’s face. Yet it was in the kindest of voices that he said:
“Well, dear, give me your bills, and I will settle them for you.”
But this did not happen to be what Lady Sarah wanted. She frowned petulantly.
“No, I’d rather have the money to settle them myself,” she said.
He shook his head.
“I gave you plenty of money to go away with. But I must see the bills now.”