He went to church regularly, and read his Bible, and said his prayers.

But she feared,--she was almost sure,--that he liked the bank-books better than his Bible.

That he would reject this offer from John Caldigate, she did not doubt.

She had always heard her husband speak of the man with disapprobation and scorn.

She had heard the whole story of Davis and the Newmarket debts.
She had heard, too, the man's subsequent prosperity spoken of as a thing of chance,--as having come from gambling on an extensive scale.