"Please don't speak to me, Homer," she answered. "I have heard enough for one day."
"You have no right to blacken my character," he said with assumed dignity.
"Uncle Mark forced me to speak the truth."
"It was not the truth. But let that pass. Why didn't you tell him you would marry me?"
"Because I don't want to marry you."
"But you might let him think that you——"
"I am above practicing a deception upon him, Homer."
"Oh, you aren't a saint!" he sneered. "I know why you are so loving to him—you thought to get all of his money. Now you are trying to blacken my character, so that you may get all of it, anyway. But the game won't work."
"I told him what I did simply to let him know why I didn't care to marry you, Cousin Homer."