Mr.
Crawley had not received Lord Lufton's cheque from the dean.

Then whence had he received it?
The poor wife was left by the lawyer to obtain further information from her husband.

Ah, who can tell how terrible were the scenes between that poor pair of wretches, as the wife endeavoured to learn the truth from her miserable, half-maddened husband! That her husband had been honest throughout, she had not any shadow of doubt.

She did not doubt that to her at least he endeavoured to tell the truth, as far as his poor racked imperfect memory would allow him to remember what was true and what was not true.

The upshot of it all was that the husband declared that he still believed that the money had come to him from the dean.