I will go to Rosenthal, and then I will find your old nurse, and I will try to have your case delayed until your nurse can get hold of her brother.

But that is really all I can do until I have your entire confidence.

I am convinced that you are a woman who has been well brought up, and that this is your first experience in a place of this kind.

I hope it will be the last; I hope, too, that the charge made against you will be proved false.

But does not all this make you realize that you should be frank with me ?" She drew herself up with a certain dignity infinitely pathetic, yet in which, like the flavor of some old wine left in a drained glass, there lingered the aroma of her family traditions.