If he earns some money, I should feel hurt because he was obstinate and wouldn't let me help.

That's why I don't know what to do.

I wish I'd never had the money!" Sadie thought Helen had some ground she had not mentioned yet for her distress.

Moreover, it looked as if she still felt she had a grievance against Festing, and their clashing ideas about the money did not altogether account for this.
"I guess you're keeping something back." Helen's reserve had broken down.

She was half ashamed because she had lost it, but she felt the need of sympathy, and Sadie could be trusted.
"He didn't see, or didn't mind, that his going away would bear out the wicked story!" she exclaimed with sparkling eyes.