He would play his game with open sincerity now.

He could have wished secrecy for Delia Gasgoyne, and for his grandfather and grandmother,--he was not wilfully brutal,--but otherwise he had no shame at all; he would stand openly for his right.

Better one honest passion than a life of deception and miserable compromise.

A British M.P. ?--He had thrown away his reputation, said the papers.

By this?
The girl was no man's wife, he was no woman's husband! Marry her?
Yes, he would marry her; she should be his wife.