"When she becomes of age."
"How old is she now?"
"In about three years she will come into absolute possession of her fortune."
"And this man, you think, has bewitched her?"
"I do."
"And yet she denied ever having met him."
"I know it, and I will say this in her favor; she is a noble and truthful girl. She believes that wretch innocent. She thinks I am unwarrantably prejudiced, and that under the circumstances it is not wrong to deceive me. She thinks he is a wronged young man. She has been assailed on a woman's weakest side—her sympathies."
"Have you positive evidence that the young man is the villain you believe him to be?"
"Not positive evidence, not convicting evidence; that is what I want you to obtain."
"Is it not possible that your niece is right?"