Better let events determine.
II When he arrived at home he went directly to Helene's room, but paused with his hand on the knob of the door.

He heard his mother-in-law's voice and she was the last person he wished to meet until he was in a position to tell her to leave the country.

He was turning away impatiently when Madame Delano lifted her hard incisive tones.
"And you promised me!" she exclaimed passionately.

"I trusted you, I never believed--" Price retreated hurriedly to his own room, and it was not until he had taken a cold shower and was half dressed that he permitted himself to think.
That wretch had known, then! It was she who had been blackmailing her daughter.

And the poor child had been afraid to confide in him, to ask him for money.