“I know better!”
“Very well. It is folly to argue with a woman who has made up her mind in advance. I will not contradict you.”
“I want that money.”
“I have no objections; want it as much as you like.”
“You knew where it was hidden.”
“Did I?”
“Yes.”
“That is news to me.”
“While he was alive you dared not touch it, for you knew he would hunt you down and kill you if you did. He had confidence in you, and so when he died he left you to turn the money over to me. Not one dollar of it have you ever given me.”
“You have been dreaming dreams. But, perhaps, if you obeyed your father and married me some of your dreams would have come true.”