"And you come here and try to steal things on your wedding-day!"
"Why not? You know as well as I do what it costs nowadays to set up house."
"Surely it would be a severe shock to your husband to find that you had been sent to prison! I think you had better be reasonable."
Fanny scraped the floor with her shoe.
"Would this thing you want me to do get into the papers?"
"Good heavens, no!"
"And there's another thing. Suppose I did come in and pull that spiel, who would believe it?"
"The girl would. She is very simple."
"She must be."
"Just an ignorant village girl. The sort who would naturally recoil from a man in the circumstances I have outlined."