"We will find another way, dear." "How dare you ?" she demanded violently.

"It was cowardly." "You don't understand--" "I understand it all," she broke in.

"I understand that this might lead to the failure of the thing you are trying to do.

But I don't care.

I understand that already I have lost my father and my brother in this; that my grandmother and my mother were nearly starved to death while it was all being planned; all for these hideous diamonds.