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Maybe he is married , and that yet the child is not legitimate . '' Mary could not but blush as her father spoke to her thus plainly . `` All we do know is that he wrote to his own brother declaring that he was about to be married twelve months after the birth of the child whom he now expects us to recognise as the heir to the title . I for one am not prepared to accept his word without evidence , and I shall have no scruple in letting him know that such evidence will be wanted . '' For ten or twelve days after the little dinner in Berkeley Square Guss Mildmay bore her misfortunes without further spoken complaint . During all that time , though they were both in London , she never saw Jack De Baron , and she knew that in not seeing her he was neglecting her . But for so long she bore it .