He had an instinctive suspicion that no rich young man, however much a booby, would have married Fanny clandestinely.

Men are forced to know something of their reputations, and Boniface Newt was perfectly aware that it was generally understood he had no aversion to money.

He knew also that he was reputed rich, that his family were known to live expensively, and he was quite shrewd enough to believe that any youth in her own set who ran off with his daughter did so because he depended upon her father's money.

He was satisfied that the Newt family was not to be a gainer by the new alliance.

The more he thought of it the more he was convinced, and the more angry he became.