The facts, however, it was necessary that he should know.
And now, what should he do?
How should he go to work to make her understand that she could not write even a letter without his knowing it; and that if she did either write to the man or see him he would immediately take the child from her, and provide for her only in such fashion as the law should demand from him?
For himself, and for his own life, he thought that he had determined what he would do.

It was impossible that he should continue to live in London.

He was ashamed to enter a club.

He had hardly a friend to whom it was not an agony to speak.

They who knew him, knew also of his disgrace, and no longer asked him to their houses.