“It must be very interesting,” said Mrs. Thornbury. “I envy her her knowledge.”

"True, my best---my wisest Rebecca!---Let us hence---let us hence!---Money he will lack, for he has just returned from Palestine, and, as they say, from prison---and pretext for exacting it, should he need any, may arise out of my simple traffic with his brother John. Away, away, let us hence!"

When on saying good-by he took her thin, slender hand, he could not help holding it a little longer in his own.