And in it was all my money--my letter of credit--everything!" "Olivetta!" "And I didn't dare cable you for more.

For if I had sent a cable to you here, it might have betrayed you." "And what did you do ?" "There was nothing for me to do but to--to--sell some of your gowns." "Oh!" Mrs.De Peyster was beginning dimly to see the drift of things.
Olivetta's mind wandered to another phase of her tribulations.
"And the price I got for them was a swindle, Caroline.

It was--it was a tragedy! For your black chiffon, and your silver satin, and your spangled net--" "But this person they took for me ?" interrupted Mrs.De Peyster.
"Oh, whoever she is, she must have bought one of them.

She could have bought it for nothing--and that Frenchman who cheated me--would have doubled his money.

And after she bought it--she--she"-- Olivetta's voice rang out with hysterical resentment--"she got us all into this trouble by walking into the Seine.