Why do they drag in unhappy people who know nothing about these matters?
The interview with your mother and Naida, which you say is false, was most dreadful.

How cruel men are! "Tell them I love them dearly; tell your father, too.

And, dear, I don't know exactly how Scott and I are situated, but if we can be of any financial use to you, please, please let us! Our fortune, when it came to us, was, I believe, all in first mortgages and railroad securities.

I believe that Scott made some changes in our investments under advice from your father.

I don't know what they were.
"Don't bother your father with such details now; he has enough to think of lying there in his grief, bewildered, broken in mind and body.