But why do you want to know NOW ?" she continued, adding her faint smile to the emphasis.
"To help you!" he said, eagerly.

"For that alone! To do all I can to assist you, if you really believe, and want to believe, that you have another.

To ask you to confide in me; to tell me all you have been told, all that you know, think you know, or WANT to know about your relationship to the Arguellos--or to--any one.

And then to devote myself entirely to proving what you shall say is your desire.

You see, I am frank with you, Yerba.