Only you and I know!" She paused.
He thrust out a hand as though to stay her speech, but she went on again "Go away from me.

You have spoiled my life; you have spoiled my boy's life, and now he fights you.

I give him no help save in one direction.
I give to him something his reputed father withheld from him.

Don't you think it a strange thing"-- her voice was thick with feeling--"that he never could bear to take money from John Grier, and that, even as a child, gifts seemed to trouble him.

I think he wanted to give back again all that John Grier had ever paid out to him or for him; and now, at last, he fights the man who gave him birth! I wanted to tell John Grier all, but I did not because I knew it would spoil his life and my boy's life.