You have not remembered this and--" more slowly and with a certain watchful care--"you have been too unhappy and ill--you have not had time to realise that if Donal has a son--" She heard Robin's caught breath.
"What his father would have inherited he would inherit also.

Braemarnie would be his and in his turn he would be the Marquis of Coombe.

It is because of these important things that it would be said that it would be immensely to your interest to insist that you were married to Donal Muir and the law would not allow of any shade of doubt." "People would think I wanted the money and the castles--for myself ?" Robin said blankly.
"They would think that if you were a dishonest woman--you wanted all you could get.

Even if you were not actually dishonest they would see you would want it for your son.

You might think it ought to be his--whether his father had married you or not.