Knowing that he was right, he decided that Emily was unworthy to care for their child and, after making careful plans, succeeded in abducting him. Emily indignantly resented her husband’s continued outbursts of distrust and finally, taking their small son, left him.

The Colonel persisted in his attentions, and the young husband became madly jealous. As “master in his own house” Trevelyan forbade Emily to receive her father’s old friend Colonel Osborne, who had a reputation in London as a philanderer. After their marriage they returned to England, taking with them Nora Rowley, a young sister of the bride.

Louis Trevelyan on a visit to the Mandarin Islands fell in love with Emily Rowley, daughter of the Governor.