I do not think you will desire to invite a public inquiry, or force me to recover my birthright in a court of justice.

I believe that you will take a broader and nobler view of the case, and that you will restore to the wronged and abandoned son the fortune stolen from his murdered father.' 'How dare you come to me with this tissue of lies?
How dare you look me in the face and charge my dead husband with treachery and dishonour?
I believe neither in your story nor in you, and I defy you to the proof of this vile charge against the dead!' 'In other words you mean that you will keep the money and jewels which Lord Maulevrier stole from my father ?' 'I deny the fact that any such jewels or money ever passed into his lordship's possession.

That vile woman, your mother, whose infamy cast a dark cloud over Lord Maulevrier's honour, may have robbed her husband, may have emptied the public treasury.

But not a rupee or a jewel belonging to her ever came into my possession.

I will not bear the burden of her crimes.