"I would not betray him.
You cannot prove anything on ME." "Bring the stuff up here yourself, then," he insinuated.
"But I don't trust you, either," she replied frankly.
The two faced each other.

Constance knew in her heart that it was going to be a battle royal with this man, that now she had taken a step even so far in the open it was every one for himself and the devil take the hindmost.
"I can't help it," he concluded.

"Those are the terms.

It is as far as I can trust a--a thief." "But I will keep my word," she said quietly.

"When you prove to me that you are absolutely on the level, that Mackenzie can make restitution in full with interest, and in return be left as free a man as he is at this moment--why,--I can have him give up." "Mrs.Dunlap," said Wickham with an air of finality, "I will make one concession.