"He has."
"How?"
"Never mind how. Quite enough to start all sorts of unpleasant stories."
"You shouldn't listen to them. People will tell stories without anything to start them."
"That doesn't make them any less unpleasant. I should have thought the very least Mr. Waddington could do—"
"Would be to pay you compensation?"
"There can be no compensation in a case of this sort, Miss Madden. I'm not talking about compensation. Mr. Waddington must realize that he cannot compromise me without compromising himself."
"I should think he would realize it, you know."
"Then he ought to realize that he is not exactly in a position to repudiate his engagements."
"Do you consider that you are in a position—exactly—to hold him to engagements he never entered into?"