The letter was kind and affectionate; it came to her hungry heart like dew to a thirsty flower.
A sudden idea occurred to Lord Arleigh.

He would go to England and find out all about the unfortunate man Dornham.

Justice had many victims; it was within the bounds of possibility that the man might have been innocent--might have been unjustly accused.

If such--and oh, how he hoped it might be!--should prove to be the case, then Lord Arleigh felt that he could take his wife home.

It was the real degradation of the crime that he dreaded so utterly--dreaded more than all that could ever be said about it.