It is about money.' 'Has he been arrested ?' asked Katie, thinking of Charley's misfortune.

'Could not Harry get him out?
Harry is so good; he would do anything, even for Alaric, when he is in trouble.' 'He will do everything for him that he can,' said Linda, through her tears.
'He has not been arrested,' said Mrs.Woodward; 'he is still at home; but he is in trouble about Miss Golightly's money--and--and he is to be tried.' 'Tried,' said Katie; 'tried like a criminal!' Katie might well express herself as horrified.

Yes, he had to be tried like a criminal; tried as pickpockets, housebreakers, and shoplifters are tried, and for a somewhat similar offence; with this difference, however, that pickpockets, housebreakers, and shoplifters, are seldom educated men, and are in general led on to crime by want.

He was to be tried for the offence of making away with some of Miss Golightly's money for his own purposes.
This was explained to Katie, with more or less perspicuity; and then Gertrude's mother and sisters lifted up their voices together and wept.
He might, it is true, be acquitted; they would none of them believe him to be guilty, though they all agreed that he had probably been imprudent; but then the public shame of the trial! the disgrace which must follow such an accusation! What a downfall was here! 'Oh, Gertrude! oh, Gertrude!' sobbed Mrs.
Woodward; and indeed, at that time, it did not fare well with Gertrude.
It was very late before Mrs.Woodward and her daughters went to bed that night; and then Katie, though she did not specially complain, was very ill.

She had lately received more than one wound, which was still unhealed; and now this additional blow, though she apparently bore it better than the others, altogether upset her.