Who knows ?" he questioned most suggestively, arching his brows and tightening his lips.
"Wives are strange kittle-kattle, and husbands have been known before to grow inconvenient.

Upon reflection, Your Grace will no doubt discern the precise degree of faith to attach to what this lady may tell you against Mr.Wilding." "Oh!" exclaimed Ruth, her cheeks flaming crimson.

"But this is monstrous!" "Tis how I should myself describe it," answered Trenchard without shame.
Spurred to it thus, Ruth poured out the entire story of her marriage, and so clear and lucid was her statement that it threw upon the affair a flood of light, whilst so frank and truthful was her tone, her narrative hung so well together, that the Bench began to recover from the shock to its faith, and was again in danger of believing her.

Trenchard saw this and trembled.

To save Wilding for the Cause he had resorted to this desperate expedient of betraying that Cause.