Richard, with his sense of justice, and knowing how much the woman had been wronged, said that in all this she had done quite right; that Frank, if he had done his duty after marrying her, should have come with her.

And because they all felt that Richard had been her best friend as well as their own, they called the child after him.

This also was Lali's wish.
Coincident with her motherhood there came to Lali a new purpose.

She had not lived with the Armours without absorbing some of their fine social sense and dignity.

This, added to the native instinct of pride in her, gave her a new ambition.