"They knew then that you—"
"They knew that my wife was not my wife. That is what you mean to ask?" The Doctor nodded his head. "Yes, they knew that."
"And what then?"
"Word was brought to me that she and I must part if I chose to keep my place at the College."
"That you must disown her?"
"The President told me that it would be better that she should go elsewhere. How could I send her from me?"
"No, indeed;—but as to the facts?"
"You know them all pretty well now. I could not send her from me. Nor could I go and leave her. Had we been separated then, because of the law or because of religion, the burden, the misery, the desolation, would all have been upon her."
"I would have clung to her, let the law say what it might," said the Doctor, rising from his chair.
"You would?"