That she had subsequent proof that the facts were really as she suspected; that there had been a child born of the crime, whose history she knew; that Mrs.Leigh had repented.
The purpose for which this was stated to me was to ask, Was it her duty to make the truth fully known during her lifetime?
Here, then, is a man believed guilty of an unusual crime by two lawyers, the best in England, who have seen the evidence,--a man who dares not meet legal investigation.

The crime is named in society, and deemed so far probable to the men of his generation as to be spoken of by Shelley as the only important allegation against him.

He acts through life exactly like a man struggling with remorse, and afraid of detection; he has all the restlessness and hatred and fear that a man has who feels that there is evidence which might destroy him.

He admits an illegitimate child besides Allegra.

A child believed to have been his is known to many in England.