"In New York!" and the hot blood rushed suddenly to her neck and face.
"In New York! And if he don't clear out soon there'll be complications!"
"Why has he come?"
"To look after his property, of course. Are you surprised?"
"I am a little. It never occurred to me that he might come to America."
"Well, he has come, and the question is whether you are going to make—well, a clean breast of it, or allow him to ferret it out himself?"
"Oh! he must not know for the world!" she said, in a tone of alarm.
"He's bound to get to know sooner or later that somebody has made him a present of five thousand dollars——"
"No, it is only a loan," she interrupted, quickly.
Mr. Graythorne laughed. "A loan that was never to be paid, eh? A loan by an anonymous lender? Well, what's in a name? Call it a loan if the word pleases you better."