When he had accomplished that task of conquering his own heart and of assuring himself thoroughly that Hetta was to become his rival’s wife, he was, I think, more at ease and less troubled in his spirit than he had been during these months in which there had still been doubt.  The sort of happiness which he had once pictured to himself could certainly never be his.  That he would never marry he was quite sure.  Indeed he was prepared to settle Carbury on Hetta’s eldest boy on condition that such boy should take the old name.  He would never have a child whom he could in truth call his own.  But if he could induce these people to live at Carbury, or to live there for at least a part of the year, so that there should be...