Choose between paying it yourself, and the disgrace of letting your son's mother-in-law be publicly arrested in Frankfort for debt." So she might have spoken, if her daughter had been a member of Mr.
Keller's family.

With floods of tears, with eloquent protestations, with threats even of self-destruction, could she venture on making the confession now?
She remembered how solemnly she had assured Mr.Keller that her debts were really and truly paid.

She remembered the inhuman scorn with which he had spoken of persons who failed to meet their pecuniary engagements honestly.

Even if he forgave her for deceiving him--which was in the last degree improbable--he was the sort of man who would suspect her of other deceptions.

He would inquire if she had been quite disinterested in attending at his bedside, and saving his life.