"You do not need to draw the line so sharply with a man of honor.

I assure you that every word in the report is true.

Therefore, will you not be so good as to sign the report ?" "I regret that I have not yet succeeded in making an engineer's point of honor clear," Tom replied, placing the pen back on the stand.

"It will be some weeks, Don Luis, before Hazelton and I can possibly hope to find ourselves sufficiently well informed about the mine to sign the report." Francesca was by no means stupid.

While she did not understand business matters, she was sufficiently keen to note, from her father's very insistent manner, and from Tom's equally firm refusal to sign, that some point of honor was in dispute between the two.
She flushed deeply, glanced wonderingly from one to the other, and then her gaze fell to the floor.
"_Chiquita_," said Don Luis, tenderly, "I have been thoughtless, and have given you too long a lesson in business.