You say it does not concern us;
we are poor people, and my husband is sick, and it
concerns us a great deal to understand how we come to
have lost our money, and why our representative comes
back to us with nothing. You ask that we should trust
you; you do not seem to understand--the question we are
asking ourselves is whether we have not trusted you too
much."
"I do not ask you to trust me," I replied. "I ask Jim.
He knows me."
"You think you can do what you please with James; you
trust to his affection, do you not? And me, I suppose,
you do not consider," said Mamie. "But it was perhaps
an unfortunate day for you when we were married, for I
at least am not blind. The crew run away, the ship is
sold for a great deal of money, you know that man's
address and you conceal it; you do not find what you
were sent to look for, and yet you burn the ship; and
now, when we ask explanations, you are pledged to
secrecy! But I am pledged to no such thing; I will not
stand by in silence and see my sick and ruined husband
betrayed by his condescending friend.
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