Do you think I would stay here when a day might make all the difference in recovering the things which belonged to my father?
Do you think that I am going to lose the things that belonged to him just because I am too much of a coward to go out and give the alarm ?' She walked away from him resolutely, but the thought of the lost treasures and all the dear memories that in her mind were identified with them seemed to overcome her.

She drew her hand hastily across her eyes, and then, to his dismay, the sorrow for her loss emphasised her wavering belief in his guilt; for the first time he realised how strong that sorrow was.

Impelled by emotion she turned again and came shrinkingly back into his presence.
'I have not reproached you,' she said, 'because I thought it would be mean in case you had not done it; but it seems that you must have done it.

Won't you tell me where the other man has taken our things?
They cannot be of any value to you compared with their value to us; and, oh, indeed I would much rather give you as much money as you could possibly make out of them, and more too, if you would only tell me which way this man has gone, and send word to him that he must give them back! I will pledge you my word of honour that----' For the first time he was offended with her.

He stepped back with a gesture of pride, which in a moment he saw she had construed into unwillingness to give the booty up.
'I could promise to give you the money; I could promise that you should not be tracked and arrested.