Every bit of life left him.
Everything about his feet.Ashes.The laughing-stock of his friends.
Were Angela there at that moment he could have killed her.
The humiliation of it! The degradation of it! Married to that lawless Irish agitator.

The man now a member of his family! A cry of misery broke from him, as he realised that the best years of his life were to come and go fruitlessly.

His career was ended.

Despair lay heavy on his soul..