"To me the complete trust you repose in Mr.Hampton is scarcely comprehensible.
Do you truly believe in his reform ?" "Certainly.

Don't you ?" The direct return question served to nettle and confuse him.

"It is, perhaps, not my place to say, as my future happiness does not directly depend on the permanence of his reformation.

But if his word can be depended upon, your happiness to a very large extent does." She bowed.

"I have no doubt you can safely repose confidence in whatever he may have told you regarding me." "You indorse, then, the claims he advances ?" "You are very insistent; yet I know of no good reason why I should not answer.