"I know that you must trust me first before you can obey me."
"I do trust you. You know that I trust you."
"Then you should obey me."
"But not to suspect my own father!"
"I do not ask you to suspect him."
"But you suspect him?"
"Yes; I do. I am older than you, and know more of men and their ways than you can do. I do suspect him. You must promise me that you will search for this deed."
Again she paused, but after a moment or two a thought struck her, and she replied eagerly, "Anton, I will tell you what I will do. I will ask him openly. He and I have always been open to each other."
"If he is concealing it, do you think he will tell you?"
"Yes, he would tell me. But he is not concealing it."