And what I did then I again would do.

I was vowed to her interests, to protect a woman shamefully wronged; I did not stick at trifles, as you know; you have read my speech in defence of myself before the court.

By my interpretation of the case, I was justified; but I estranged my family and made the world my enemy.

I gave my time and money, besides the forfeit of reputation, to the case, and reasonably there was an arrangement to repay me out of the estate reserved for her, so that the baroness should not be under the degradation of feeling herself indebted.

You will not think that out of the way: men of the world do not.