How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
'Seems odd you didn't tell me,' said Wells. 'I've only been waiting—what—twelve years? Twelve years, and no reply. All these years I've been in the highlands, digging for gold. Now the man himself arrives in town, and you knew about it, and you made no mention. No: it's worse than keeping quiet. You set out to deceive me. You burned the paper in the bloody stove. That's a black deceit, Mrs. Wells. That's a cold deceit' (V.3.6).
Here, we're in a flashback to when Crosbie Wells realized that Lydia had purposely tried to keep him from knowing that his half-brother, Alistair Lauderback, was in town—since if the two men talked, that would foul up Lydia/Frank's plans to blackmail Lauderback. Little does he know, she also stole all his gold—and his birth certificate and mining right. Which are also related to the blackmail.
Quote #8
Staines remembered Carver's instruction. 'I'm afraid there's nobody of that name here,' he said. 'You don't mean Mr. Wells—Francis Wells?' (V.4.10).
When Staines and Carver meet, and Carver offers to sponsor Staines, Staines ends up with a strange task one day: He has to guard a chest and, if anyone asks, tell them that the room he's in and crate belong to a Francis Wells. So, when Sook shows up looking for Carver, Staines dutifully says that he must be looking for Francis Wells—which puts Sook off the scent.
Quote #9
'Well,' said Staines, frowning slightly, 'that's very difficult to say—which to value higher. Honesty or loyalty. From a certain point of view one might say that honesty is a kind of loyalty—loyalty to the truth…though one would hardly call loyalty a kind of honesty! I suppose that when it came down to it—if I had to choose between being dishonest but loyal, or being disloyal but honest—I'd rather stand by my men, or by my country, or by my family, than by truth. So I suppose I'd say loyalty…I myself. But in others…in the case of others, I feel quite differently. I'd much prefer an honest friend to a friend who was merely loyal to me; and I'd much rather be loyal to an honest friend than to a sycophant. Let's say that my answer is conditional; in myself, I value loyalty; on others, honesty' (VI.1.14).
When Wells and Staines meet, we get the latter's philosophy of dishonesty vs. disloyalty. Wells likes his answer—and Staines soon demonstrates that he is honest when he tells Wells about Carver's use of his last name for one day.