Who accuses her of guilt?
You ask me a question on his behalf--" "On hers--and on his, Miss Vavasor." "A question which I feel myself bound to answer truly,--to answer with reference to the welfare of them both; but I will not have it said that I accuse her.

She had been attached to Mr Fitzgerald when your cousin married her.

He knew that this had been the case.

She told him the whole truth.

In a worldly point of view her marriage with Mr Fitzgerald would probably have been very imprudent." "It would have been utterly ruinous." "Perhaps so; I say nothing about that.