Silas Manner

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describes their marriage as " an ugly story of low passion delusion and waking from delusion, which needs not to be dragged from the privacy of Godfrey's bitter memory."(33). The marriage was one that Godfrey did not think much about before acting on his impulse. His brother Dunstan had trapped Godfrey in a position where Dunstan could blackmail him Dunstan saw the marriage as a way "of gratifying at once his jealous hate and his cupidity."(33). For reasons not stated in the book Dunstan has a deep-seated hate towards his brother. Godfrey soon acquires a huge debt to both his brother and his wife who has had his child, to keep quiet about the marriage. Godfrey is afraid of his secret getting out because he will lose his girlfriend and his father will disown him. To cover the debts Godfrey borrows from one of his father's tenets and must give his brother his only horse to sell . Dunstan takes his horse and over runs it causing it to fall and die. This puts Godfrey in a bad ...

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unable to conceive a child and neither one of them were as happy as if they would have had children . Nancy is always longing for a child and due to Victorian ideals it was not accepted for a couple to adopt a child. Godfrey blamed and resented Nancy for them being unable to have children. Still after many years he is unable to admit his great sin being married to another woman and still dating another to Nancy use also unable to admit that the child now being raised by is his child . At last Nancy gives up trying to have children in Godfrey becomes upset. Manny of the townspeople understand his disappointment saying that " it's natural he should be disappointed at not having any ...

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