I must have the money." "By what right do you incessantly demand money from me ?" she asked.
"You promised, in those happier days, to be my friend always; and as a friend you have lent me money often.

As a friend, I ask you for it again." "And as a friend," she retorted, "I refuse." "Then I shall be obliged to adopt the very unpleasant alternative of asking it from Lord Lisle." "Lord Lisle would refuse it." "He would give it to me as the means of purchasing my silence," he said.
"You forget, Lady Amelie, what I have to show Lord Lisle, if he does refuse ?" "You mean my letters ?" she said, indignantly.

"You are coward enough to threaten me with showing my husband the letters I was so mistaken as to write to you ?" "I should be deeply grieved, indeed," he said, "but I have no other alternative." "And I mistook you for a gentleman," she said, with calm scorn.
"You were very kind to me, Lady Amelie," he said, with a polite sneer.
"I do not believe you have those letters," she said.
"I have, indeed.

I have locked them up with the only two family heirlooms I possess--a watch and a ring--in an ivory casket, and I go nowhere without it." "You must do your worst!" said Lady Amelie.
"Nay," he said, "I do not wish to do that.

My worst would be to bring the honored name of Lady Amelie Lisle into the divorce court, and that I should not like to do.