You understand?
I'll take a wife back with me.

Then we shall be all square all round.' With what delight would he have given the twenty thousand pounds, had he dared! Had there been no question about the woman, he would have given the money to satisfy his own conscience as to the injury he had involuntarily done to his old partners.

But he could not do it now.

He could make no suggestion towards doing it.

To do so would be to own to all the Boltons that Mrs.Euphemia Smith was his wife.