In the first place, she owes no money privately to any living creature.

In the second place, the Diamond is not now, and never has been, in her possession, since she put it into her cabinet on Wednesday night.
"The confidence which my daughter has placed in me goes no further than this.

She maintains an obstinate silence, when I ask her if she can explain the disappearance of the Diamond.

She refuses, with tears, when I appeal to her to speak out for my sake.

'The day will come when you will know why I am careless about being suspected, and why I am silent even to you.