"No."
Hugh Ritson looked perplexed.
"The girl was a Catholic, Lowther a Protestant. A Catholic priest married them in Ireland. That was not a valid marriage by English law."
Hugh smiled grimly.
"And Lowther had the marriage annulled?"
"He had fallen in love," began Mr. Bonnithorne.
"This time with an heiress?" There was a caustic laugh.
Mr. Bonnithorne nodded. "Greta's mother. So he—"
"Abandoned the first wife," Hugh Ritson interrupted again.
Mr. Bonnithorne shook his head with an innocent expression.