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`` By no means -- for yourself . '' `` Bertha , I simply can not . '' `` All right , '' said Bertha . `` I give you until to-morrow at noon to decide . If by that time I have twenty pounds in my hand all right , your secret is respected and no catastrophe will happen , and your frightful deceit will never be found out . Only one person will know it , and that is I . But if you do not give me the twenty pounds I shall myself go to Mrs. Clavering and tell her everything .