'In business he may be what many people say he is.

I don't understand business! But I have known him to help people who needed help badly and who never guessed that he even knew their names.' 'You must be right,' Margaret answered.
She remembered the last words of the girl who had died in the manager's room at the theatre.

There had been a secret.

The secret was that Mr.Van Torp had done the thing, whatever it was.

She had probably not known what she was saying, but it had been on her mind to say that Mr.Van Torp had done it, the man she was to have married.
Margaret's first impression had been that the thing done must have been something very bad, because she herself disliked the man so much; but Miss More knew him, and since he often did 'very, very kind things,' it was possible that the particular action of which the dying girl was thinking might have been a charitable one; possibly he had confided the secret to her.