"The wretched man you once called by that name is a disgraced criminal.

It is better that you know the worst." When Mr.Dinneford came home, instead of the quiet, happy child he had left in the morning, he found a sad, almost broken-hearted woman, refusing to be comforted.

The wonder was that under the shock of this terrible awakening, reason had not been again and hopelessly dethroned.
After a period of intense suffering, pain seemed to deaden sensibility.
She grew calm and passive.

And now Mrs.Dinneford set herself to the completion of the work she had begun.

She had compassed the ruin of Granger in order to make a divorce possible; she had cast the baby adrift that no sign of the social disgrace might remain as an impediment to her first ambition.