For the future, there was her child.
Mutimer came to Exmouth when she had been there three weeks, and he stayed four days.

Mrs.Boscobel had an opportunity of making his acquaintance.
'Who contrived that marriage ?' she asked of Mr.Westlake subsequently.
'Our lady mother, presumably.' 'I have no reason to think it was not well done,' replied Mr.Westlake with reserve.
'Most skilfully done, no doubt,' rejoined the lady.
But at the end of the year, the Westlakes returned to London, the Boscobels shortly after.

Mrs.Waltham and her daughter had made no other close connections, and Adela's health alone allowed of her leaving the house for a short drive on sunny days.

At the end of February the child was born prematurely; it entered the world only to leave it again.

For a week they believed that Adela would die.