It may have been only a scandal, or, if there was a marriage, it may have been illegal.

The Kingdons were Protestants, and the Spaniards are all papists, I suppose.

A marriage between a Protestant and a Roman Catholic wouldn't be binding." "Not upon such a man as this Kingdon." It seems more than probable that the opinion arrived at by this poor soul's friends must be correct, and that Montagu Kingdon was a scoundrel.

But how about Susan Meynell's after-life ?--the fourteen years in which she was lost sight of?
May she not have married some one else than Mr.Kingdon?
and may she not have left heirs who will arise in the future to dispute my darling's claim?
Is it a good thing to have a great inheritance?
The day has been when such a question as that could not by any possibility have shaped itself in my mind.

Ah! what is this subtle power called love, which worketh such wondrous changes in the human heart?
Surely the miracle of the cleansed leper is in some manner typical of this transformation.