"If she fulfils it, all well and good.

The very fact of having written it keeps a girl true when she should otherwise be false.

But if she refuses to keep it, the remedy then is in your own hands." "And that remedy is"-- he began, but she interrupted him quickly.
"The remedy is, of course, an action at law; or what would be far more efficacious in her case, holding her letters as a means of getting money from her.

A proud woman will sacrifice any amount of wealth rather than have such a thing known." Marion Arleigh fell easily into the plot laid by those she considered her best friends..