And he would see to it that whatever fruits that folly yielded, dishonour should not be one of them.

Through all his darkening rage there beat the light of reason.

To avert, he bethought him, was better than to avenge.

Nor were such stains to be wiped out by vengeance.

A cuckold remains a cuckold though he take the life of the man who has reduced him to that ignominy.
Tremayne must go before the evil transcended reparation.