"Not a bit," she replied. "From your point of view it's quite justifiable, I suppose, and I'm only considering the best way out of the dilemma."
"Are there several?"
"There's only one that I care to choose."
"And that is?"
"I shall marry again."
"Good heavens! not—!"
"Not your father, no; some one else."
"But surely—!"
"You see," she continued calmly, ignoring his interruption, "if I marry some one at once your father can't have any feeling of—shall we say responsibility? And it'll not be necessary for me to go into what Miss Matilda would call 'my shameful past.'"
"But I really couldn't allow—"