To save himself and, of course, the woman whose reputation he had ruined, he would be expected to offer the affronted husband a large sum of money to assuage her pride and the slur on his name.
It would all take time and would be extremely humiliating.
He would be naked, while Burton was fully dressed in the clothes that he was supposed to have travelled from Paris in.
It was the sort of situation that would make a good melodrama at The Playhouse, but not so funny when one was actively involved oneself.
He could see all too clearly how Haughton had been caught with nothing he could do in the circumstances but pay whatever Burton demanded.
He would be in the same predicament, except that, as he was richer than Lord Haughton, he would find the settlement more expensive.
‘How can I poss
