acknowledge no
other. Remonstrance is useless. You must do what we do--you must
give way to an unreasonable man. The best fellow in the world in
other : in this one matter as obstinate and self-willed
as he can be. If you ask me my opinion, I tell you honestly that
I think he was wrong in courting and marrying you under his false
name. He trusted his honor and his  to your keeping in
making you his--wife. Why should he not trust the story of his
 to you as well? His mother quite shares my opinion in
this matter. You must not blame her for refusing to admit you
into her  after your marriage: it was then too late.
Before your marriage she did all she could do--without betraying
secrets which, as a good mother, she was bound to --to
induce her son to act justly toward you. I commit no indiscretion
when I tell you that she refused to sanction your marriage mainly
for the reason that Eustace refused to follow her advice, and to
tell you what his position really was. On my part I did all I
could to support Mrs. Macallan in the course that she took. When
Eustace wrote to tell me that he had engaged himself to marry a
niece of my