Should there be any further communication between you and Colonel Osborne, not only will I take your child away from you, but I will also limit the allowance to be made to you to a bare sustenance.

In such case, I shall put the matter into the hands of a lawyer, and shall probably feel myself driven to take steps towards freeing myself from a connection which will be disgraceful to my name.
For myself, I shall live abroad during the greater part of the year.

London has become to me uninhabitable, and all English pleasures are distasteful.
Yours affectionately, LOUIS TREVELYAN.
When he had finished this he read it twice, and believed that he had written, if not an affectionate, at any rate a considerate letter.
He had no bounds to the pity which he felt for himself in reference to the injury which was being done to him, and he thought that the offers which he was making, both in respect to his child and the money, were such as to entitle him to his wife's warmest gratitude.
He hardly recognised the force of the language which he used when he told her that her conduct was disgraceful, and that she had disgraced his name.

He was quite unable to look at the whole question between him and his wife from her point of view.

He conceived it possible that such a woman as his wife should be told that her conduct would be watched, and that she should be threatened with the Divorce Court, with an effect that should, upon the whole, be salutary.