“And he gave you the valuables?”
“He did. I’ll swear to that—though I have no witness to prove it.”
“And you accepted them! Accepted a large sum of money and a pin set with a precious stone from a man you scarcely knew! A man engaged to be married! A man of twice your own age! You must admit this calls for explanation.”
“Why does it? Hadn’t he a right to give me those things if he chose?”
“Wait a minute, Miss Austin. You loved him?”
“Maybe.”
“Then, if you did, do you want his name stained, his memory blotted by an act that is, to say the least, questionable?”
“But he did give them to me.”
“Unless you can say more clearly why he did so I’m not sure I can believe you. Did you ask for them?”
“Oh, no!”