“That man stole them.”
“Adela!”
“You said that he had money, that he was not obliged to work. Now you know why he has money and what his work is.”
“Adela! But—but why didn’t you—”
Her voice faded away.
“I couldn’t. My hands were tied.”
“How?”
“He caught me in a trap. He laid a bait for my vanity, Beryl, and I took the bait.
“But what was it?”
“He made me believe that he had fallen in love with me. I was a woman of fifty and he made me believe that! That is how vanity leads us!”