Remove his wife! All the Boltons in Cambridgeshire could not put a hand upon her, unless by his leave! For some moments his anger supported him; but after a while that gave way to the old feeling of discomfort which pervaded him always.

She was his wife, and nobody should touch her.

Nevertheless he might find it difficult, as Robert Bolton had said, to prove that that other woman was not his wife.
Robert Bolton's office was in a small street close to Pembroke College, and when he came out of it he had intended to walk direct through Trumpington Street and Trinity Street to Chesterton.

But he found it necessary to compose himself and so to arrange his thoughts that he might be able to answer such foolish questions as Mrs.Bolton would probably ask him without being flurried.

He was almost sure that she had heard nothing of the woman.