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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: really knew as little as she said?
"I know nothing--you must tell me," she faltered out; and her
visitor thereupon proceeded to unfold his story. It threw, even
to her confused perceptions, and imperfectly initiated vision, a
lurid glare on the whole hazy episode of the Blue Star Mine. Her
husband had made his money in that brilliant speculation at the
cost of "getting ahead" of some one less alert to seize the
chance; the victim of his ingenuity was young Robert Elwell, who
had "put him on" to the Blue Star scheme.
Parvis, at Mary's first startled cry, had thrown her a sobering
glance through his impartial glasses.
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