He thought to himself more than once that, if by any unexpected means he discovered that Henry Dornham was innocent of the crime attributed to him, he would in that same hour ask Madaline to forgive him, and to be the mistress of his house.

That was the only real solution of the difficulty that ever occurred to him.

If the man were but innocent he--Lord Arleigh--would never heed the poverty, the obscurity the humble name--all that was nothing.

By comparison it seemed so little that he could have smiled at it.

People might say it was a low marriage, but he had his own idea of what was low.