You must trust me and try to forgive me." "I daresay I am very stupid, Mr.Dodd," began Mamie, with an alarming sweetness, "but I thought you went upon this trip as my husband's representative and with my husband's money?
You tell us now that you are pledged, but I should have thought you were pledged first of all to James.

You say it does not concern us; we are poor people, and my husband is sick, and it concerns us a great deal to understand how we come to have lost our money, and why our representative comes back to us with nothing.

You ask that we should trust you; you do not seem to understand; the question we are asking ourselves is whether we have not trusted you too much." "I do not ask you to trust me," I replied.

"I ask Jim.

He knows me." "You think you can do what you please with James; you trust to his affection, do you not?
And me, I suppose, you do not consider," said Mamie.