A Fair Fraud — page 165: what you’re looking at

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154 A Fair Fraud cannot do otherwise than help a lady in distress, more especially when she is his guest. My only regret is that the sum being more than I happen to have by me at present, there must necessarily be a little delay before I can give it to you. You tell me that a cheque is of no use to you?’ He waited a moment, looking at her narrowly. If she would only make a clean breast of it and tell him openly what the trouble was, he felt he might respect her more, but this veiled and wrapped-up ‘difficulty, to which she would only allude in the vaguest way, filled him with the gravest doubts of her honesty and good faith, She made no reply to his question save by an inclination of the head; her eyes were averted, for she was afraid to look at him. She was quite calm. Calm and very pale— all the hysterical emotion which she had dis- played earlier in the evening to Marivn Blake had passed away now. She knew perfectly well that she was lowering herself in the eyes of the man she loved, and that he despised her. She had been prepared for that. It was hard to bear, but to save him from the danger that threatened him she was prepared to en- dure more than that. ‘It must be in money, notes, or gold,’ she said dully, feeling his questioning eyes upon GOMMGIOO <S (GO)