“Ffolliott?” His surprise was unmitigated.
She laughed bitterly:
“Yes—that is the worst part of my shame. It bleats in my ears just like that.”
“But——”
“Listen. He will not keep his bond—I cannot appeal to any sense of honour. He himself does not know how to spell the word.”
“What! you are not married to him?”
She smiled grimly:
“No. My degradation has not sunk to that. He has not even the will nor the desire to support me even for a little while—until the child is born.”
The big man frowned:
“Oh, I do not think he is quite such an unmitigated cad as that!”