Lucy Robarts And now, how was he to tell his wife?
That was the consideration heavy on Mark Robarts's mind when last we left him; and he turned the matter often in his thoughts before he could bring himself to a resolution.

At last he did do so, and one may say that it was not altogether a bad one, if only he could carry it out.

He would ascertain in what bank that bill of his had been discounted.

He would ask Sowerby, and if he could not learn from him, he would go to the three banks in Barchester.

That it had been taken to one of them he felt tolerably certain.