He smiled at her reassuringly.
“I will come back and then we will think of a solution to your problems together.”
He thought that her eyes lit up and she replied,
“It is very kind of you – but are you quite certain – it is no trouble?”
“None at all,” he answered. “But I have to leave you now because I am taking that picture of your father’s to show to somebody who bought another picture of his a year ago.”
He saw the question that Una wanted to ask, without her having to say it.
“Of course, the money will be yours, if the sale is concluded – after I have deducted my usual commission.”
“Oh, I do hope you sell it!” Una cried. “I don’t want to worry you with my problems, but all I have left in my purse is twenty-five francs – the journey here was expensive.”
“I am sure it was,” Philip
