Your pride is not your prize money, and I hope that it never was. It lay in your service to your country, and having discharged that service with merit and honor. Our future is not one of privation and want—my dowry alone sees to that. And our security lies in each other, the bonds of our marriage, and our love for our daughter. The money Wickham stole—wrong as he was to do it—it had nothing to do with any of these things. Consider to what extremes this loss has driven us!”