ter--it's so
much straighter."

"No, no, no! On no account. Don't go near Frinton."

Audrey leaned back in the car. And as speed increased the magnificence of
the morning again had its effect on her. The adventure pleased her far more
than the perils of it, either for herself or for other people, frightened
her. She knew that she was doing a very strange thing in thus leaving the
Spatts and her luggage without a word of explanation before breakfast; but
she did not care. She knew that for some reason which she did not
comprehend the police were after her, as they had been after nearly all the
great ones of the movement; but she did not care. She was alive in the
rushing car amid the magnificence of the morning. Musa sat next to her. She
had more or less incompletely explained the situation to him--it was not
necessary to tell everything to a boy who depended upon you absolutely for
his highest welfare--such boys must accept, thankfully, what they received.
And Musa had indeed done so. He appeared to be quite happy and without
anxieties. That was the worst He had wanted to be with her, and he was with
her, and he cared for nothing else. He had no interest in what might happen
next. He yielded himself utterly to the enjoyment of her presence and of the
magnificent morning.

And yet Musa, whom Audrey considered that she understood as profoundly as
any mother had ever understood any child--even Musa could surprise.

He said, without any preparation:

"I calculate that I shall have 3,040 francs in hand after the concerts,
assuming that I receive only the minimum. That is, after paying the
expenses of my living."

"But do you know how much it costs you to live?" Audrey demanded, with
careless superiority.

"Assuredly. I write all my payments down in a little book. I have done so
since some years."

"Every sou?"

"Yes. Every sou."

"But do you save, Musa?"

"Save!" he repeated the word ingenuously. "Till now to save has been
impossible for me. But I have always kept in hand one month's subsistence.
I could not do more. Now I shall save. You reproached me with having spent
money in order to come to see you in England. But I regarded the money so
spent as part of the finance of the concerts. Without seeing you I could
not practise. Without practice I could not play. Without playing I could
not earn money. Therefore I spent money in order to get money. Such,
Madame, was the commercial side. What a beautiful lawn for