"He said he could not tell me before we left. He didn't want the people about here to know."
"That's queer. Why shouldn't he?" growled Tom.
"He's good reasons for it, no doubt," she answered. "Was anything said about money?"
Tom shuffled uneasily in his chair.
"Well, yes, we had a few words about it."
"What did you say to him?"
"Told him it was usual for a man of means to settle something on his wife."
"Well, what did he say?"
"Laughed; said he wasn't exactly a rich man but he could afford to keep a wife in comfort. Then he offered to give me a hundred pounds to put by for you in case anything happened to him. He said it would do for a bit until his affairs were settled. I said it wasn't much. We argued the thing out. He's promised two hundred; that's not so bad," said Tom in a hesitating way.
"Did he give you the money?" she asked,