Shame!——and so ends my period prettily.

But even,—prove the pair not culpable,

Free as unborn babe from connivance at,

Participation in, their daughter's fault:

Ours the mistake. Is that a rare event?

Non semel, it is anything but rare,

In contingentia facti, that by chance,

Impunes evaserunt, go scot-free,

Qui, such well-meaning people as ourselves,

Justo dolore moti, who aggrieved