And again I had to listen to him." Hilliard fancied that he could feel her heart beat against his arm.
"Be quick!" he said.

"Tell all, and have done with it." "He told me, at last, that he was ruined.

His wife had brought him into money difficulties; she ran up bills that he was obliged to pay, and left him scarcely enough to live upon.

And he had used money that was not his own--he would have to give an account of it in a day or two.

He was trying to borrow, but no one would lend him half what he needed----" "That's enough," Hilliard broke in, as her voice became inaudible.
"No, you ought to know more than I have told you.