I have always been a good woman in one sense--a moral woman, that is--and I did wish to marry the Professor and live a happy life.
Seeing that I was at the end of my resources, and that Professor Braddock expected a legacy with me before marriage, I looked round to, see how I could get the money.

I heard that you were accused by Captain Hervey, and so last night I wrote that letter and posted it in London, thinking that you would yield to save yourself from arrest." Random laughed cynically.
"You must have thought me weak," he muttered.
"I did," said Mrs.Jasher frankly.

"To tell you the truth, I thought that you were a fool.

But by tracing that letter and withstanding my demand, you have proved yourself to be more clever than I took you to be.

Well, that is all.