Not till I had been with you for several weeks did I learn that she was being used in a swindling scheme against Dick.
"I did think of telling you or Dick.

But my greatest interest was to awaken that better person I believed to be in her; and I knew that the certain result of my exposing her to you would be for me to lose the last bit of influence I had with her, and for her to pass right on to another enterprise of similar character.

So the idea came to me that if I didn't expose her, but caused her to be received with every courtesy by her intended victims, the effect upon her would be that she would feel a revulsion for what she was doing and she would come to her best senses.

I told this to Mr.Hunt; that's why he agreed not to give her away.

And another point, though frankly this was not so important to me: it seemed to me that a good hard jolt might be just what was needed to make Dick take life more seriously, and I saw in this affair a chance for Dick to get just the jolt he needed.
"That's all, Miss Sherwood.