In Prison What should he do?
John Caldigate, as he walked out of the inn-yard, had to decide for himself what he would do at once.

His first impulse was to go to the mayor and ask for assistance.

He had a right to the custody of his wife.

Her father had no right to make her a prisoner.

She was entitled to go whither she pleased, so long as she had his sanction and should she be separated from him by the action of the law, she would be entitled to go whither she pleased without sanction from any one.
Whether married or unmarried she was not subject to her father.