'Please stop.' Lady Maud's face darkened visibly. 'That's not like you.'
'I'll give a million pounds sterling,' said Mr. Van Torp slowly.
Lady Maud leaned back in her corner of the sofa, clasping her hands rather tightly together in her lap. Her white throat flushed as when the light of dawn kisses Parian marble, and the fresh tint in her cheeks deepened softly; her lips were tightly shut, her eyelids quivered a little, and she looked straight before her across the room.
'You can do a pretty good deal with a million pounds,' said Mr. Van Torp, after the silence had lasted nearly half a minute.
'Don't!' cried Lady Maud, in an odd voice.
'Forty thousand pounds a year,' observed the millionaire thoughtfully. 'You could do quite a great deal of good with that, couldn't you?'
'Don't! Please don't!'
She pressed her hands to her ears and rose at the same instant. Perhaps it was she, after all, and not her friend who had been brought suddenly to a great cross-road in life. She stood still one moment by the sofa without looking down at her companion; then she left the room abruptly, and shut the door behind her.
Van Torp got up from his seat slowly when she was 64 gone, and went to the window, softly blowing a queer tune between his closed teeth and his open lips, without quite whistling.
'Well——' he said aloud, in a tone of doubt, after a minute or two.
But he said no more, for he
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