"Yet if she knew all.

If she knew that I were a disgraced and ruined man,--a felon and an outcast.

If she knew that at the age of fourteen I murdered my Latin tutor and forged my uncle's will.

If she knew that I had three wives already, and that the fourth victim of misplaced confidence and my unfortunate peculiarity is expected to be at Sloperton by to-night's train with her baby.

But no; she must not know it.