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A bitter laugh broke from the girl's lips.
"Do you know what you have had already?" she asked. "Because if you don't, I'll tell you. It's just a thousand pounds. A whole thousand pounds inside a week. And I used to be an honest girl who prided herself upon being absolutely straight. If anybody had told me a week ago that I should find you a thousand pounds I should have laughed. And yet it is true, and you can't deny it. And now you come to me asking for more. You can't have it."