"Because you might think—"
"I may think?"
"That I am the echo of rumors."
"What rumors?"
"No, nothing; absurdities."
"But, tell me then?"
"It is no reason because there are reports in circulation about you——"
"About me?"
"There is not a word of truth in it—that you have been doing some bad business; pure scandal, no doubt, like when we speculated on the 'Change together. That report soon fell to the ground; for I wish that you and I might become——"
"Then you think your money is no longer safe with me?"