Henry Wilmers puts the case aside, and takes her as he finds her.

His cousin, the clever and cynical Dorset Wilmers, whose method of conveying his opinions without stating them was famous, repeats on two occasions when her name appears in his pages, 'handsome, lively, witty'; and the stressed repetition of calculated brevity while a fiery scandal was abroad concerning the lady, implies weighty substance--the reservation of a constable's truncheon, that could legally have knocked her character down to the pavement.
We have not to ask what he judged.

But Dorset Wilmers was a political opponent of the eminent Peer who yields the second name to the scandal, and politics in his day flushed the conceptions of men.

His short references to 'that Warwick-Dannisburgh affair' are not verbally malicious.

He gets wind of the terms of Lord Dannisburgh's will and testament, noting them without comment.