“Shall I offer her a tip?” asked George, in a whisper.
“No, don’t do that.”
“You can’t wheedle her like you did the old man, you know. A woman may do a great deal with a man, but when she meets another woman she meets her match. You women know each other, you know.”
Meanwhile the housekeeper, who had been about to shut the door, seemed to pause and regard the young lady with a good deal of curiosity. Her attention had before that time been taken up with the gentleman.
“Well, I shall walk to the end of the terrace, and give you a chance to try your wiles. But I am ready to bet ten dollars that you don’t succeed.”
“I’ll take you,” answered the young lady.
“Yes, you said you would that night on the steamer.”
“Oh, that’s a very good way of getting out of a hopeless bet.”
“I am ready to make the bet all right enough, but I know you haven’t a ten-dollar bill about you.”
“Well, that is very true, for I have changed all my money to English currency; but I am willing to bet its equivalent.”