I'm not as mean and bad mannered as you think me.

I really do care what happens to him--to you both," she hastened to add.
Struggling to keep back her tears, and in a low voice, Mona rejoined: "I meant to have told him what I'm going to tell you now.

I couldn't say anything about the money belonging to him till I had told him how it came to be his." After a moment' pause she continued: "He told you all about the race which Flamingo lost, and about that letter." She pointed to the letter which Kitty still carried in her hand.

"Well, that letter was written under the sting of bitter disappointment.

I was vain.