That _must_ be the reason." "Yes, seem's if it must." "It is.

What right have you to doubt it?
Oh, how can you think such things?
Can you suppose the man I am to marry is so despicable--so _mean_ as to--as to--I'm ashamed to say it.

Why do you presume that money has any part in our engagement?
Such trouble as mine only makes it more binding.

Do you suppose if _he_ were poor as--as I am, that I would desert _him_?
You know I wouldn't.

I should be glad--yes, almost happy, because then I could show him--could--" Her voice failed her.