Pansy glanced at him.
"How quiet you are all at once. What are you thinking about?"
"Ways and means," he replied, smiling slightly.
"I thought only hard-up people were troubled in that way."
"The trouble with me now is that I want something which I fear can't be bought with money."
"What an unpleasant position for a millionaire to be in. Still, it makes you 'realise your limitations,' as an old governess of mine used to say."
She paused for a moment, watching him with an air of subtle mockery.
"And, Mr. Le Breton, it won't do you any harm to have to go without a few of the things you want. There's a look about you as if you always had things too much your own way."
"I'm not so sure yet that I'm going to do without it. Fortunately I have two other courses left open to me—persuasion and power," he replied.
"Power! I thought that was the prerogative of kings."