He said Mr.Woodburn was still angry and always had considered Josiah wickedly ungrateful." Penhallow looked at his wife.

Her sense of the comedies of life was sometimes beyond his comprehension, but now--now was she not a little bit, half consciously, of the defrauded master's opinion?
"And so, when that failed, you went to bank and drew out the poor fellow's savings ?" He meant to hear the whole story.

There was worse yet, and he was sure she would speak of it.

But now she was her courageous self and desired to confess her share in the matter.

"Of course, he had to have money, Ann." She wanted to get through with this, the most unpleasant part of the matter.