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De Barsac swung along by the side of Dorn, whistling to himself and having every appearance of a man who has succeeded in some great endeavour. The mere fact that his financial difficulties were at an end for the moment was all sufficient for him, but Dorn apparently did not share this opinion. He was going to benefit himself, and, indeed, he needed the money badly enough, but he appeared to be anxious and ill at ease--a fact upon which de Barsac rallied him.
"What the matter?" the latter asked. "Upon my word, there's no satisfying some people. Here you are, the richer by two hundred pounds which you have, obtained merely by the asking for, and yet you look like a man who has been robbed instead of one who has had a fine slice of luck."