There seemed to Amory a certain lack of delicacy in the pause. It was as if she gave Amory an opportunity of saying what she wanted the money for. Amory was sure that some day, when those poor and deserving artists should come to her, she would neither ask questions nor break off into pauses that came to the same thing. She did not deny Dorothy's right to refuse; she did deny her any other right. If Dorothy's fashion-drawing or advertisements or whatever it was could not provide ten pounds, then absolutely the only thing that could be said for these absurdities disappeared. "You see, I should have to borrow it myself----" Dorothy said hesitatingly, and Amory merely hoisted her shapely shoulders. Then, however, it seemed to strike even Dorothy that she was not behaving very well. Suddenly she said, "All right, I will borrow it; will to-morrow do?" "I should be awfully obliged," said Amory, helping Dorothy on with the Ararat Coat. But Dorothy relapsed from the right attitude again immediately. Without stopping to think that the Ararat sleeve was wet and Amory dry, she suddenly passed her arm about her. She held her close, making her horridly wet, and began to say a number of the so-called sympathetic things that, when they are not impertinences, are banalities. "I _am_ sorry, dear," she said. "I see how it is; of course you aren't cut out for this sort of life. I saw that the moment I came in. Now, look here, what you ought to do would be to give Mrs. 'Ill a sum every week, and to tell her that she's got to do you, all in, for that. Not too much, either; _you_ can't buy, but she can. That's the way I do. I saw how you'd been living when I washed up; eggs and sardines and pressed beef; and you're really run down. You ought never to have signed that contract, but I'll tell you what you perhaps can do about that. Tell Croziers' that you won't go to another dealer, but that you _must_ have leave to sell things privately, and that you'll pay them commission just as if _they'd_ sold them. If they won't--well, just you sell without their permission, and let 'em sue you if they like. They won't sue you. They can't afford it. I'm seeing business men every day, remember, and I'm sure that's what Mr. Miller would say. And if my thing comes off I'll buy a picture from you next Spring. Will you promise to do that, Amory?"