If he never made her his legal wife, his wife legal at all points, he would always treat her as wife.

When his uncle the Earl should die, when the time came in which he would be absolutely free as to his own motions, he would discover the way in which this might best be done.

If it were true that his Kate's father was a convict escaped from the galleys, that surely would be an additional reason why she should not be made Countess of Scroope.

Even Mrs.O'Hara herself must understand that.

With Kate, with his own Kate, he thought that there would be no difficulty.
From bad to worse! Alas, alas; there came a day in which the pricelessness of the girl he loved sank to nothing, vanished away, and was as a thing utterly lost, even in his eyes.