"I would sacrifice my life for him--for my husband--and you are demanding that I do more than that.

I must be sure of the reward!" Hodges leaned forward eagerly, as if about to speak, but she interrupted him.
"Listen!" she cried, a fire beginning to burn through the whiteness of her cheeks.

"It was you who urged him to come up here when, through misfortune, we lost our little home down in Marion.

You offered him work, and he accepted it, believing you a friend.

He still thought you a friend when I knew that you were a traitor, planning and scheming to wreck his life, and mine.