Signor Malipizzo's cruel
travesty of justice--how unfavourably it compared with his cousin's
altogether satisfactory, straightforward and businesslike handling of
Muhlen's little affair!
Doubtless she suffered intensely. He called to mind her looks, her
voice, during that first interview at the villa Mon Repos; he thought
it likely that, but for her child and husband, she would have taken her
own life in order to escape from this villain. And doubtless she had
weighed the matter in her own mind. Sensible people do not take steps
of this gravity without reflecting on the possible consequences. She
must have tried her hardest to talk Muhlen over, before coming to the
conclusion that thee was nothing to be done with the fellow. She knew
him; she knew her own mind. She knew better than anyone else what was
in store for her if Muhlen got the upper hand. Her home broken up; her
child a bastard; herself and Meadows--social outcasts; all their three
lives ruined. Mrs. Meadows, plainly, did not relish such a prospect.
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