"I have heard that which shows me your true character.  My mother never received those post-office orders.  I gave you three sovereigns to change into postoffice orders for my mother, and she--she never had them; she never got any of my letters, she thought me cold, heartless, unfeeling--she, my mother, the one I love best in the world.  You, you held back the letters, you kept the money--dare you deny it?"