Whether she could in truth be called good the reader may say when he has finished this story.
Then, when the Earl had been married some three years to his second wife, the heir died.

He died, and as far as Scroope Manor was concerned there was an end of him and of the creature he had called his wife.
An annuity was purchased for her.

That she should be entitled to call herself Lady Neville while she lived, was the sad necessity of the condition.

It was understood by all who came near the Earl that no one was to mention her within his hearing.

He was thankful that no heir had come from that most horrid union.