"No," he answered strongly.
"I was always afraid of that. Do you know--if you don't mind, when I've really paid my cruel creditor everything, I should like to write and tell her what he's done for me. I should like her to know that she really did save me--and how. Because if it hadn't been for her you'd never have thought of helping me. Do you think I might?"
"It could do no harm," said Vernon after a silent moment. "You'd really like her to know you're all right. You are all right?"
"I'm right; as I never thought I could be ever again."
"Well, you needn't exaggerate the little services of your cruel creditor. Come to think of it, you needn't name him. Just say it was a man you knew."
But when Paula came to write the letter that was not just what she said.