LAURA. Then you withdrew. Was that because there was something wrong in it?
MONTAGUE. It was, Miss Hegan.
LAURA. There were corrupt things done?
MONTAGUE. There were many kinds of corrupt things done.
LAURA. And was my father responsible for them?
MONTAGUE. Yes.
LAURA. Directly?
MONTAGUE. Yes; directly.
LAURA. Then my father is a bad man? MONTAGUE. [After a pause.] Your father finds himself in the midst of an evil system. He is the victim of conditions which he did not create.
LAURA. Ah, now you are trying to spare me!