"Not with advantage to me."
"Or to my husband?"
"Or with advantage to your late husband."
"And to you, and to you alone the secret of these transactions is now known?"
"To me, and to me alone."
She paused in thought. She held up her hand to bespeak his silence. After a few moments' pause, she said:
"In the course of these transactions injury was done to some one? Was that not so?"
"You are asking too much. Neither your happiness nor your fortune could be served by my answering your questions. I refuse to answer."
With a gesture, she declined to be satisfied with this treatment.
"I have no fortune and no happiness. Once you told me you would do anything I requested of you if I gave you a rose. There are no roses now. In all likelihood there will be no more roses while I live----"