She remembered that Frances had tried to make her accept it as security, in return for the loan of thirty pounds.
She referred to the confession.

Two passages in it were underlined: "The wickedness in me, on which Mrs.Gallilee calculated, may be in me still." And, again: "Even now, when you have found me out, I love him.
Don't trust me." Never had Carmina trusted her more faithfully than at that bitter moment!.