No one knew better than she did the hopeless condition of his financial status.

Debt--prison perhaps--was waiting for him at every turn.

Yet he seemed triumphant! She knew him to have reached those confines of irritability and rebellion against poverty which would cause him to shrink from nothing for the sake of gaining money.

Yet he seemed triumphant! Instinctively she shuddered as she thought of Sue.

She had no cause to like the girl, yet would she not wish to see her come to harm.
She did not dare avow even to herself the conviction which she had, that if Sir Marmaduke could gain anything by the young girl's death, he would not hesitate to ...