I don't believe your father is going to stoop to that.

To be real frank with you, I don't think he can afford to." "You've got to hear it; you can't desert me now.

I'm away up in the air this morning, and even if you do hate this kind of thing, you've got to see where dad's hatred of Bassett puts Marian and me." "It puts you clean out of it; away over the ropes and halfway home! That's where it puts you," boomed Harwood.
"Well, you've got to listen, and you've got to tell me what to do.

Dad had already investigated Bassett's years in New York, when he was a young man studying in the law school down there.

But they could get about so far and no farther.