Consider it unsaid! Only a man without ties is apt to risk more than a man who has more to lose.

I've had the most fantastic ill-luck this year that ever fell any man's lot before." "At least you were vindicated," Violet said.
"Oh, that!" said Wentworth.

"Well, it was beginning to be time my luck turned, wasn't it?
It was rank enough to be caught, but if I'd been convicted, I'd have hanged myself.

Now tell me! Was it Field's brilliant defence that dazzled you into marrying him ?" She did not answer him.

She turned instead and faced him in the darkness.
"Burleigh! What do you mean by risk?
What do you mean by being--caught?
You don't mean--you can't mean--that you--that you were--guilty!" Her voice shook.