Returning to the present case, the results stand thus: Mr.Vanborough is a single man; Mrs.Vanborough is a single woman; their child is illegitimate, and the priest, Ambrose Redman, is liable to be tried, and punished, as a felon, for marrying them." "An infamous law!" said Mr.Kendrew.
"It _is_ the law," returned Mr.Delamayn, as a sufficient answer to him.
Thus far not a word had escaped the master of the house.

He sat with his lips fast closed and his eyes riveted on the table, thinking.
Mr.Kendrew turned to him, and broke the silence.
"Am I to understand," he asked, "that the advice you wanted from me related to _this ?_" "Yes." "You mean to tell me that, foreseeing the present interview and the result to which it might lead, you felt any doubt as to the course you were bound to take?
Am I really to understand that you hesitate to set this dreadful mistake right, and to make the woman who is your wife in the sight of Heaven your wife in the sight of the law ?" "If you choose to put it in that light," said Mr.Vanborough; "if you won't consider--" "I want a plain answer to my question--'yes, or no.'" "Let me speak, will you! A man has a right to explain himself, I suppose ?" Mr.Kendrew stopped him by a gesture of disgust.
"I won't trouble you to explain yourself," he said.

"I prefer to leave the house.

You have given me a lesson, Sir, which I shall not forget.
I find that one man may have known another from the days when they were both boys, and may have seen nothing but the false surface of him in all that time.

I am ashamed of having ever been your friend.