Larry realized that she was looking into the very soul of him, and he sat silent during this estimate which he recognized she had the right to make.
"Mr.Hunt has written me the main facts about you, certainly the worst," she said finally.

"You need tell me nothing further, if you prefer not to do so; but it might be helpful if I knew more of the details." Larry felt that there was no information he was not willing to give this clear-eyed, charming woman; and so he told her all that had happened since his return from Sing Sing, including his falling in love with Maggie, the nature of their conflict, her departure into the ways of her ambition.
"You are certainly facing a lot of difficult propositions." Miss Sherwood checked them off on her fingers.

"The police are after you--your old friends are after you--you do not dare be caught.

You want to clear yourself--you want to make a business success--you want to eradicate Maggie's present ambitions and remove her from her present influences." "That is the correct total," said Larry.
"Certainly a large total! Of them all, which is the most important item ?" Larry considered.

"Maggie," he confessed.