It would take a great deal to make me disbelieve it." "But surely a confession--" "Ah, well, let me hear the confession, and then I shall be better able to judge." Even as he spoke Hilda had entered the room.
"There will be no difficulty about that, Mr.Mayfield.You shall hear it, and I trust that it will make you repent for taking so black a view of the case of your own client." "Without prejudice, Miss Bannerman, without prejudice," said the lawyer, with some confusion.

"Our conversation is entirely between ourselves, and to the world I have always upheld that your father was an innocent man." But such distinctions are too subtle for a loving woman.
"He WAS an innocent man," said she, angrily.

"It was your business not only to believe it, but to prove it.

You have neither believed it nor proved it; but if you will come upstairs with me, I will show you that I have done both." Mayfield glanced at me and shrugged his fat shoulders.

Hilda had led the way, and we both followed her.