Wickham will soon be gone; and therefore it will not signify to anyone here what he really is.

Some time hence it will be all found out, and then we may laugh at their stupidity in not knowing it before.

At present I will say nothing about it." "You are quite right.

To have his errors made public might ruin him for ever.

He is now, perhaps, sorry for what he has done, and anxious to re-establish a character.