Then why -- since the choice was with himself -- should the individual, whose connexion with the fallen woman had been the most intimate and sacred of them all, come forward to vindicate his claim to an inheritance so little desirable?

• 那么，作为与这个堕落的女人关系最亲密和最神圣的一个人，既然他还有选折的余地，何必前来公开要求这份并非求之不得的遗产呢?