'Who is he, by-the-bye ?' 'Somebody's illegitimate son, I believe,' replied the source of trustworthy information, with a laugh.

'Denham says he met him in New York a year or two ago, under another name.
'Excuse me,' interposed Mr Quarmby, 'there's some mistake in all that.' He went on to state what he knew, from Yule himself, concerning Milvain's history.

Though in this instance a corrector, Mr Quarmby took an opportunity, a few hours later, of informing Mr Hinks that the attack on Yule in The Current was almost certainly written by young Milvain, with the result that when the rumour reached Yule's ears it was delivered as an undoubted and well-known fact.
It was a month prior to this that Milvain made his call upon Marian Yule, on the Sunday when her father was absent.

When told of the visit, Yule assumed a manner of indifference, but his daughter understood that he was annoyed.

With regard to the sisters who would shortly be living in London, he merely said that Marian must behave as discretion directed her.