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`` It 's a simple business proposition -- a promising investment , '' she thought . `` I 'll ask him to get the money for me at a fair interest -- to get me enough anyhow to give me control of the business . The worst he can do is to refuse , '' she concluded , with a kind of forlorn optimism ; `` at least he ca n't kill me . '' Making a hurried excuse , she went back to the telephone , and calling up the judge , asked for an appointment in his office at five o'clock . From his surprised response she inferred his curiosity , and from his hearty acquiescence , she gathered that his surprise was not an unpleasant one . `` At five o'clock , then . It is so good of you .