“But where—where do you say she found them?” she asked, with a keener interest than the question quite seemed to call for.
“It was in a picture-frame, between the picture and the boards at the back,” he answered. “The picture dropped, and the certificates fell out.”
“Heaven be praised!” she breathed again. “Was there nothing else that fell out?”
“Nothing else, apparently.”
“That was enough. Why should I want more? Oh, get them for me quickly, will you?” she cried, all animated and pink. “With these in my hand everything will be different. Even your prophecy against my marriage, which you seemed not to desire, will very likely come true.”
“So now I have your authority to spend the one hundred pounds?” he asked, with a smile.
“Of course! Ten times as much!”
“But blessed is she who has not seen, and yet has believed!”
“Forgive me! I do thank and trust you!” She put out her hand. He took it, and bent some time over it.