Never had she felt him more attractive, more, in a sense, royally lovable than in this hour of weariness, of moral nakedness, and humiliation.
"Not until I had rejoined my regiment in India," he presently continued, in the same low even tones, "did I hear of the birth of her son.

I have never seen him--or made enquiries regarding him.

I meant to let the dead bury its dead in this matter.

For everyone concerned it seemed best and wisest so.

Therefore all you have told me to-night comes as news to me--and in some respects as good news.