"And you didn't understand that your father and brother-in-law could not convert their securities into the ready cash they needed to meet their obligations—did you?"
"I do not understand details, Louis.... No."
"Or that they were desperate?"
Her face altered pitifully.
"On the edge of bankruptcy?" he went on.
"What!"
"Then," he said deliberately, "you don't know what helped them—what tided them over those two days—what pulled them through by the slimmest margin that ever saved the credit of anybody."
"Not—my money?"
"Yes; your money."
"Is it true, Louis?"