So it had been with the tale which Lady Ongar had told.

It had been all as she had said; and had Sir Hugh heard it--even Sir Hugh, who doubted all men and regarded all women as being false beyond a doubt--even he, I think, would have believed it.
But she had deserved the sufferings which had come upon her.

Even Harry, whose heart was very tender toward her, owned as much as that.

She had sold herself, as she had said of herself more than once.

She had given herself to a man whom she regarded not at all, even when her heart belonged to another--to a man whom she must have loathed and despised when she was putting her hand into his before the altar.