A Fair Fraud — page 171: what you’re looking at

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160 A Fair Fraud with this disreputable fellow for ever,’ he replied bluntly. She looked at him blankly. ‘Who told you?’ she said below her breath. ‘Was it Mr Naylor, or was it Marion Blake ?’ For one second, unknown to either of them, their fate trembled in the balance. One word more on either side might have cleared up the mystery that lay between them, and the mountains of mistrust and misunderstanding might have melted away. But, alas! the word that might have worked this miracle was never spoken, and the game of cross-purposes went on to the end. ‘Do not let us drag in the names of other people,’ he said impatiently. ‘This business concerns no one on earth but ourselves, nor should I dream of asking information about you from either Naylor or Marion. They cannot possibly know any more about you than I do.’ ‘Then if you know so much, surely you can: make allowanccs for me?’ she pleaded. ‘You must realise the agony of shame with which I am forced to apply to you for this money.’ | ‘I may realise your shame, and pity you sincerely for it,’ he answered with a certain brutal frankness; ‘but to make allowances for you is really beyond my power! When you have struggled out of this disgraceful bondage GOMMGIOO <S uu (GO)