Where did you get Mr.Mallow's portrait ?" "I don't want to say," murmured the girl.
"But you must say," said Mallow angrily.

"I order you to confess." "I kept silent for your sake, sir," she said, her eyes filled with tears, "but if you must know, I took the portrait from Senora Gredos' dressing-room when I left her house.

And I left it on your account, sir," she finished defiantly..