He smiled weakly.
"Take them!"
"No, a thousand times, no! I have a watch, and there's always a pawnbroker handy, even in Europe."
"You offered to help me," she insisted.
"It is not quite the same."
"Take quarter of it."
"No. Don't you understand? I really couldn't."
"One, just one, then!" she pleaded.
An idea came to him. "Very well; I will take one." And when she gave it to him he folded it reverently and put it away.
"I understand!" she cried. "You are just going to keep it; you don't intend to spend it at all. Don't be foolish!"