But there had never been another man involved.
"Grace, listen to me!" He placed one hand on her wrist.

"We are both in a terrible predicament, out of which my marriage may lift us.

If you do anything that endangers the marriage, if my engagement should be broken,--we are both ruined." "What do you mean ?" A puzzled look appeared in her face.
"I didn't tell you before, because I thought it would never be necessary to do so," he went on, growing more nervous and uneasy.

"But little by little I put all our money into the South American Developing Company which I promoted, and the enterprise is a failure.

Moreover, I induced most of the clients of the bank to invest--I grow sick every time I contemplate what's going to happen when they learn that their money is lost.