"I thought you loved Hetty, but I see that you only love your feelings and your respectability.

The devil take both! She was right; my love for her, incomplete as it was, was greater than yours." And he left the house in dudgeon.
But he stood awhile in the avenue to laugh at himself and his father-in-law.

Then he took a hansom and was driven to the house of his solicitor, whom he wished to consult on the settlement of his late wife's affairs..