my mission in good faith. I really believed—for reasons I need not trouble you with—that it would be better for Madame Olenska to recover her situation, her fortune, the social consideration that her husband's standing gives her.\"
\"So I supposed: you could hardly have accepted such a mission otherwise.\"
\"I should not have accepted it.\"
\"Well, then—?\" Archer paused again, and their eyes met in another protracted scrutiny.
my mission in good faith. I really believed—for reasons I need not trouble you with—that it would be better for Madame Olenska to recover her situation, her fortune, the social consideration that her husband's standing gives her.\"
\"So I supposed: you could hardly have accepted such a mission otherwise.\"
\"I should not have accepted it.\"
\"Well, then—?\" Archer paused again, and their eyes met in another protracted scrutiny.
