It seemed to say, that nature's most burdened weaker must always be beaten.

Despite Henrietta's advocacy and Carinthia's clear face, it raised a spectral form of a suspicion, the more effective by reason of the much required justification it fetched from the shades to plead apologies for Lord Fleetwood's erratic, if not mad, and in any case ugly, conduct.

What otherwise could be his excuse?
Such was his need of one, that the wife he crushed had to be proposed for sacrifice, in the mind of a lady tending strongly to side with her and condemn her husband.
Lady Arpington had counselled Carinthia to stay where she was, the Fates having brought her there.

Henrietta was too generous to hesitate in her choice between her husband's sister and the earl.

She removed from Livia's house to Lord Fleetwood's.