The man probably feared a scandal more than the loss of his wife in her going.

He had never been thrashed--the sole apology Chillon discovered for him, in a flushed review of the unavenged list of injuries Carinthia had sustained.

His wise old father insisted on the value of an early thrashing to trim and shape the growth of most young men.

There was no proof of Lord Fleetwood's having schemed to thwart his wager, so he put that accusation by: thinking for an instant, that if the man desired to have his wife with him, and she left the country with her brother, his own act would recoil; or if she stayed to hear of a villany, Carinthia's show of scorn could lash.

Henrietta praised my lord's kindness.