Mrs.Goddard would certainly have to leave Billingsfield--no one could expect the Ambroses or the squire himself to associate with a convict forger.

Mr.Juxon vaguely wondered whether he should live another nine years to see the end of all this, and he inwardly determined to go to sea again rather than to witness such misery.

He could not see, no one could see how things could possibly turn out in any other way.

It would have been some comfort to have gone to the vicar, and to have discussed with him the possibilities of Mrs.Goddard's future.

The vicar was a man after his own heart, honest, reliable, charitable and brave; but Mr.Juxon thought that it would not be quite loyal towards Mrs.Goddard if he let any one else know that he was acquainted with her story.
For two days he stayed at home and then he went to see her.