We went to Exeter.

She went to her father, and I finally succeeded in effecting an arrangement which was satisfactory on all sides.
"First of all, the separation should be absolute, and neither of us should ever hold communication with the other in any shape or way.
"Secondly, she should take another name, so as to conceal the fact that she was my wife, and not do any further dishonor to the name.
"In return for this I was to give her outright twenty thousand pounds as her own absolutely, to invest or spend just as she chose.

She insisted on this, so that she need not be dependent on any annual allowance.

In consideration of this she forfeited every other claim, all dower right in the event of my death, and every thing else.

This was all drawn up in a formal document, and worded as carefully as possible.