It's the financial support he represents, curse him! Money--and a man without conscience.

A man who would starve thousands or millions to achieve his ends.

A man who, in every sense of the word, is a murderer--" The sharpness of her cry stopped him.

If possible, her face had gone whiter, and he saw her hands clutched suddenly at her breast.

And the look in her eyes brought the old, cynical twist back to his lips.
"There, I've hurt your puritanism again, Miss Standish," he said, bowing a little.