It is at any rate the fact that your sister is my wife.

As this demand has been made upon me it was natural that I should wish to discuss it with some one whom I can trust.

I tell you all the facts, but I am not going to listen to any fault-finding as to my past life.' 'Poor Hester!' 'Why is she poor?
She does not think herself so.' 'Because there is a world of sorrow and trouble before her; and because all that you have told to me must probably be made known to her.' 'She knows it already;--that is, she knows what you mean.

I have not told her of the woman's lie, nor of this demand for money.

But I shall when she is strong enough to hear it and to talk of it.