If I hadn't got it I daresay that I should go to the bad as he did." The girl's lips tightened, and she drew a little breath through her teeth.

Davenant hesitated.
"You know all about that company affair.

Of course they made your father the butt of the whole thing, although he was little more than a tool.

He was sent to prison for seven years.

You were only a child then and your mother was dead.