The  doctor  has  some  hold  over  him.  My  father  has  done
something  dreadful ;  I  don't  know  what  and  I  don't  want
to  know,  but  if  it  came  out  it  would  ruin  my  father,  or
worse,  worse.  I  am  the  price  of  his  silence.  On  the  day
of  our  marriage  he  will  destroy  the  proofs.  If  I  refuse
to  marry  him,  they  will  be  produced  and  then "

"It  is  difficult,"  I  said.
