Lady Claudine saw them, so did General Campion. Brownlie painted an unpretty picture. The money his mother left him must have gone mostly to set her up with MacMaster. God only knows what arrangement they make over her. What else? Sylvia's son is probably the result of an affair before her marriage. A man who's a member here. Good God! I'm sorry to put all this on you, but you want to know, I suppose? Go on. And then, of course, Christopher took her back after the Perowne business. Broke his mother's heart. Ruggles says Christopher's willing to sell his wife for money or favours. I kept him short. I let him go to the devil. As for his career, he's written off as more or less a French spy.