It would hang over my head like a drawn sword, and some day the sword would fall.

My children, should Heaven send any to me, might grow up, and then, in the height of some social or political struggle, when man often repeats against his fellow man all that he knows of the vilest and the worst, there might be thrown into their faces the fact that they were descended from a felon.

It must not be; a broken heart is hard to bear--injured honor is perhaps harder." She drew up her slender figure to its full height, her lovely face glowed with a light he did not understand.
"You may be quite right," she said.

"I cannot dispute what you say.

Your honor may be a sufficient reason for throwing aside the wife of less than twelve hours, but I cannot see it.