I might not have found it out for the next ten years.
She can get rid of him--d'ye hear ?--get rid of him.

Think of that, my friend Giles!" He related what he had learned of the new legal remedy.

A subdued tremulousness about the mouth was all the response that Winterborne made; and Melbury added, "My boy, you shall have her yet--if you want her." His feelings had gathered volume as he said this, and the articulate sound of the old idea drowned his sight in mist.
"Are you sure--about this new law ?" asked Winterborne, so disquieted by a gigantic exultation which loomed alternately with fearful doubt that he evaded the full acceptance of Melbury's last statement.
Melbury said that he had no manner of doubt, for since his talk with Beaucock it had come into his mind that he had seen some time ago in the weekly paper an allusion to such a legal change; but, having no interest in those desperate remedies at the moment, he had passed it over.

"But I'm not going to let the matter rest doubtful for a single day," he continued.

"I am going to London.