It cost her nothing to speak with unmoved utterance; the difficulty was not to seem too indifferent.
'He's told us as much as he thought fit.

His duty! I like that! As if you couldn't have stopped him, if you'd chosen! You might have thought of other people.' 'Did he tell you that I tried to stop him ?' Adela asked, with the same quietness of interrogation.
'Why, did you ?' cried Alice, looking up scornfully.
'No.' 'Of course not! Talk about duty! I should think that was plain enough duty.

I only wish he'd come to me with his talk about duty.

It's a duty to rob people, I suppose?
Oh, I understand _him_ well enough.

It's an easy way of getting out of his difficulties; as well lose his money this way as any other.