A deep plot, Mr.Ransom; one that should prove to you that Mrs.Ransom's motive in leaving you was of a very serious character.

Do you wish that motive probed to the bottom?
I cannot do it without publicity.

Are you willing to incur that publicity ?" "I must." Mr.Ransom had risen in great excitement.

"Nothing can hide the fact that my bride left me on our wedding-day.

It only remains now to show that she did it under an influence which robbed her of her own will; an influence from which she shrank even while succumbing to it.