He did not suspect Robert Bolton of treachery in that respect; but she would probably talk to him about the iniquity of his past life generally, and he must be prepared to answer her.

It was incumbent upon him to shake off, before he reached Chesterton, that mixture of alarm and anger which at present dominated him; and with this object, instead of going straight along the street, he turned into the quadrangle of King's College, and passing through the gardens and over the bridge, wandered for a while slowly under the trees at the back of the college.

He accused himself of a lack of manliness in that he allowed himself to be thus cowed.

Did he not know that such threats as these were common?
Was it not just what might have been expected from such a one as Crinkett, when Crinkett was driven to desperation by failing speculations?
As he thought of the woman, he shook his head, looking down upon the ground.

The woman had at one time been very dear to him.