Observe, madam, I don't dispute your view of the position of affairs at the palace in Venice.
You have your husband's letters to justify you; and you have also the significant fact that Lady Montbarry's maid did really leave the house.
We will say, then, that Lord Montbarry has presumably been made the victim of a foul wrong--that Mr.Ferrari was the first to find it out--and that the guilty persons had reason to fear, not only that he would acquaint Lord Montbarry with his discovery, but that he would be a principal witness against them if the scandal was made public in a court of law.

Now mark! Admitting all this, I draw a totally different conclusion from the conclusion at which you have arrived.
Here is your husband left in this miserable household of three, under very awkward circumstances for him.

What does he do?
But for the bank-note and the written message sent to you with it, I should say that he had wisely withdrawn himself from association with a disgraceful discovery and exposure, by taking secretly to flight.

The money modifies this view--unfavourably so far as Mr.Ferrari is concerned.

I still believe he is keeping out of the way.