"She intends me to believe that you have got them, and are keeping them from me fraudulently! cheating me, in point of fact--that you are cheating me, so that you may have some hold over the property for your own purposes.
That is what your aunt wishes me to believe.

She is a wise woman, is she not?
and very clever.

In one breath she tries to bribe me to give you up, and in the next she wants to convince me that you are not worth keeping." "But, Anton--" "Nay, Nina, I will not put you to the trouble of protestation.

Look at that star.

I should as soon suspect the light which God has placed in the heaven of misleading me, as I should suspect you." "Oh, Anton, dear Anton, I do so love you for saying that! Would it be possible that I should keep anything from you ?" "I think you would keep nothing from me.