I don't know that I give it much thought.

I--" "Do you think this man deserves to be punished ?" she demanded.
She had resumed her seat at the desk and partly regained her self-possession.
"Why do you ask?
What is your interest in this matter ?" "I don't know," she replied evasively; "his case interests me, that's all.

Its rather romantic.

Your son loves this man's daughter.

He is in disgrace--many seem to think unjustly." Her voice trembled with emotion as she continued: "I have heard from one source or another--you know I am acquainted with a number of newspaper men--I have heard that life no longer has any interest for him, that he is not only disgraced but beggared, that he is pining away slowly, dying of a broken heart, that his wife and daughter are in despair.