Greed keeps the money.

Greed spends it.

The only thing that gives away every cent of a fortune it was paid, in secret, to the very person it was paid to marry, is love, a love so complete and so unconcerned with its own reward that it turned even the bribe meant to corrupt it into a gift.

I did not yet understand the full reason Gabriel had signed.

But I understood, sitting on that floor, that whatever the reason was, it was not the one I had screamed at him, and that I had, in my haste, gotten something enormously, shamefully wrong.