If you'd told me--" "Oh, I'm not afraid of Edward Thatcher.

If a man brings a lawsuit against me, the sooner I see him the better.

I sent word to Edward and he was waiting at the bank when I got there." "I'd given Thatcher credit for being above dragging a woman who had always been his friend into a lawsuit.

He certainly owed you an apology." "I didn't see it just that way, Morton, and he didn't apologize.

I wouldn't have let him!" She looked at him over her glasses disconcertingly, and he could think of no reply.