I did not use charitable money to protect their business or house, and I did not make their financial position an undertaking I owed them because they disliked the consequences.

Those proceedings were not criminal convictions.

I did not invent theft charges from every unpaid loan or assume every failed enterprise was a scheme.

Arthur had genuine financial trouble.

He had also concealed it and tried to make my recovery the solution.

Both could be true.

Melissa eventually reduced her wedding plans.

They were not erased from the calendar, and the marriage itself was not something I wished to destroy.