He will not see his wife again, but he makes her an allowance out of his income.
In arranging all this, Thackeray is enabled to have a side blow at the British way of distributing patronage,--for the favour of which he was afterwards himself a candidate.

He quotes as follows from _The Royalist_ newspaper: "We hear that the governorship"-- of Coventry Island--"has been offered to Colonel Rawdon Crawley, C.B., a distinguished Waterloo officer.

We need not only men of acknowledged bravery, but men of administrative talents to superintend the affairs of our colonies; and we have no doubt that the gentleman selected by the Colonial Office to fill the lamented vacancy which has occurred at Coventry Island, is admirably calculated for the post." The reader, however, is aware that the officer in question cannot write a sentence or speak two words correctly.
Our heroine's adventures are carried on much further, but they cannot be given here in detail.

To the end she is the same,--utterly false, selfish, covetous, and successful.

To have made such a woman really in love would have been a mistake.