He proved to be a blackguard and deserted her.

The fault from what I hear may not have been entirely on one side.

Her father refused to have anything to do with her because she had married without his consent and perhaps for one or two other reasons as well.

So, between the old sinner and the young one the girl has had a pretty bad time." "How does she live ?" "I fancy old Frankland allows her a pittance, but it cannot be more, for his own affairs are considerably involved.

Whatever she may have deserved one could not allow her to go hopelessly to the bad.