Lord Dangars.
Oh, have you! Well, I don’t see that a man’s eligibility requires any further qualification than that of his being single. You differ?
Hugh Murray.
May I speak honestly, Lord Dangars?
Lord Dangars.
Do. I admire anything of that sort. I think your partner told me you were a Scotchman and new to London. I like to encounter a man in his honest stage.
Hugh Murray.
Thank you. Then you will allow me to maintain that the man who marries a good woman knowing that his past life is not as spotless as hers grievously wrongs his wife and fools himself.
Lord Dangars.
As for wronging her, that’s an abstract question of sentiment. But I don’t see how the man is a fool.