"It seems very hard," she said helplessly.
"It would be uncommonly hard upon that child, if this breach were not healed. But it must be healed."
"You do not know half the bitter things Mr. Granger said. Nothing would induce me to humiliate myself to him."
"Not the consideration of your son's interests?"
"God will protect my son; he will not be punished for any sin of his mother's."
"Come now, Clary, be reasonable. Let me write to Granger in my own proper character, telling him that you are here."
"If you do that, I will never forgive you. It would be most dishonourable, most unkind. You will not do that, Austin?"
"Of course I will not, if you insist upon it. But I consider that you are acting very foolishly. There must have been a settlement, by the way, when you married. Do you remember anything about it?"
"Very little. There was five hundred a year settled on me for pin money; and five hundred a year for papa, settled somehow. The reversion to come to me, I think they said. And—yes, I remember—If I had any children, the eldest son was to inherit Arden Court."
"That's lucky! I thought your father would never be such a fool as to let you marry without some arrangement of that sort."