AUSTIN. My dear, you don't understand...
JIM. [Wildly.] You didn't leave me to find out for myself. You lied to me!
MRS. AUSTIN. At least you permitted him to be misled. You did not tell him the honest truth about the paper, and what would be the effect if he signed it.
AUSTIN. My dear, you do not understand. I could not have done that. I was the representative of the interests of the company.
MRS. AUSTIN. And that is the sort of work you do for them?
AUSTIN. That is the sort of work that has to be done. I cannot help it, much as I would like to...
MRS. AUSTIN. [Wildly.] You have done that sort of thing before. And you will do it again!
AUSTIN. My dear...
MRS. AUSTIN. And you take money for it! You bring that money home to me! And you never told me how you got it! You make me sharer in your guilt!
AUSTIN. Helen!