The trunk was filled with clothes. Before laying his hand upon them, Seth, with a steady look at Sally, said:
"I doubt, Sally, whether there's anybody in the world you know better than you know me."
"There is no one, Daddy."
"It has been a pleasure to me to believe that you love me."
"There's only one I love better than you, Daddy.'
"Our Duchess."
"Yes."
"But in addition to love, you have some other feeling with respect to me. Shall I try to put it in words?"
"If you please, Daddy."
"From what you know of me, you know I would not be guilty of a mean or dirty action. You know that I would sooner have my hands cut off than give anyone the power to say, 'Seth Dumbrick, you are a scoundrel and a sneak.'"