"I have; I've told nobody--not even Nora."
"Doesn't Miss Lindsay know?"
"She doesn't. Nobody knows--except you; and I shall be obliged by your respecting my confidence."
"I'll respect your confidence; but--of all the queer starts! What fibs you've told!"
"I know I've told some; in a position like mine, one had to. But I'd made up my mind that you shouldn't know I had money, and--you didn't know."
"I certainly did not; I scarcely realize it now; I wonder if you're joking."
"No, I'm not joking."
She shook her pretty head, with a grave little smile. Her face looked white in the moonshine.
"Can you touch the capital? Is it in the hands of trustees? Or do you only have the income?"
"It is not in the hands of trustees; it is entirely at my own disposal; I can get it when I want."