You can not punish them all, Sir Everard.

There is truth in this story, or it never would have originated; and he has written to her--that is beyond a doubt.

He had told it himself, and shown her reply." "It is as false as hell!" His eyes blazed like coals of fire.

"My wife is as pure as the angels, and any one who dares doubt that purity, even though it be the mother who bore me, is my enemy to the death!" He dashed out of the house, mounted Sir Galahad, and rode away as if Satan and his hosts were after him.
"Mamma! mamma!" Mildred cried, in unutterable reproach, "what have you done ?" "Told him the truth, child.

It is better he should know it, although that knowledge parts us forever." Like a man gone mad the young baronet galloped home.