'You have lost all hope of me?'
'No. But at present your eyes are so set in another direction that you will not look the way I have been pointing you. Of course, you do not see what I see.'
'In what direction are my eyes so set?'
'I will not presume to tell Miss Frere what she knows so much better than I do.'
Betty bit her lip.
'What is in that cabinet?' she asked suddenly.
'Coins.'
'Oh, coins! I never could see the least attractiveness in coins.'
'That was because—like some other things—they were not looked at.'
'Well, what is the interest of them?'