"But when I am in need of someone to lay down rules of conduct for me I shall let you know.

At present I feel quite competent to take care of myself.

But if you are very much worried, I don't mind telling you that I have not 'cottoned up' to Neal Taggart." "What you meetin' him for, then ?" he asked suspiciously.
"I have not met Neal Taggart since the day you made him apologize to me," she said slowly.
"Who are you meetin', then ?" he demanded.
She looked straight at him.

"I cannot answer that," she said.
His lips curled with disbelief, and her cheeks flushed a little.
"Can't you trust anybody ?" she said.
"Why," she continued as he kept silent, "don't you think that if I had intended, as you said once before, to cheat you, to take _anything_ that belongs to you, that I could have done so long ago?
I had the diagram; I could have kept the idol, the money, the ranch.

What could you have done; what could you do now?
Don't you think it is about time for you to realize that you are hurting no one but yourself by harboring such black, dismal thoughts.