"A crime?"
"A three-fold crime."
The Governor rose, crossed the floor, then drew up in front of Stowell and spoke with sudden energy.
"First, against the girl herself. She's an attractive young person, I suppose, eh?"
Stowell nodded.
"But uneducated, illiterate, out of another world, as they say?"
Stowell nodded again.
"Then does your man suppose that by sending her to school for a few months he will bridge the gulf between them? Is that how he expects to make her happy? Ten to one the girl will be a miserable outsider in her husband's house to the last day of her life. But that's not the worst, by a long way."
"No?"
"If he marries her it will out of a sense of duty will it not?"