Warden. I want your silence to keep it from the public for the family's sake. I've secured a satisfactory indorser for a note to satisfy Ryder's claim.
Miss Godesby. Why didn't you give him to me instead of Ryder?
Warden. I felt you would be willing, out of friendship—
[There are sleigh-bells in the distance, coming nearer.
Miss Godesby. Huh! you must take me for an idiot!
Warden. Out of friendship for his wife.
Miss Godesby. Blanche Sterling! I never could bear her! She's always treated me like the dirt under her feet!
Warden. You dined with her last night.
Miss Godesby. That was to please her mother. No, if my money's gone, Sterling's got to suffer, and the one slight consolation I shall have will be that Blanche Sterling will have to come off her high horse.
[The sleigh-bells stop.