"What means of influence had you over my husband beyond what I knew of?"
"I am not in the least pained by that question. I was a poor idiotic fool to give you up, but I could not support you if I married you on my own means then. I had no means. But still less could I, vile as I was, marry you on money got from him."
"What influence had you?"
"I had only one spell to conjure with."
"And that was?"
"The name of Fahey."
"How did you employ that name?"
"I said to him once, 'Is Fahey still loyal?' I said it half in jest. We were alone. He begged of me never to mention that name again, as it recalled his awful condition in Florence. He said if I would do him the favour of never referring to that circumstance or name, he would be my life-long debtor--adding: 'And I mean what I say, and that it shall have practical results.'"
"He meant money."
"Yes."