"If I throw in my lot with you--with you only--I must break with Finsen--and I'm in Finsen's debt.
"I know! Oh, I know!"
"If I could only repay him somehow! But I have nothing!"
"You have your jewels, Helga."
"They are not enough. And besides, how could I part with a present of yours, Oscar? But if there were any other way of getting money----"
"Helga, what are you thinking of?"
"I am thinking that if this is an atmosphere of cheats and cheating perhaps you have been cheated also."
"Helga!" His voice was tremulous with protest.
"Would it be so very wrong to do to them as they have done to you, Oscar?"
"Helga! Helga!" His tremulous voice was breaking into gasps of helplessness.