Davies has seen Maw and can better answer BR's questions.

"The counsel who has already advised on the possibility of obtaining divorce and who had before him a complete and accurate account of your matrimonial record was clearly of opinion that there would be no chance of a petition by you succeeding, having regard to the delay and the connivance and the regard of your own misdoings."

"If Dora brings the petition there is no intention whatever of representing you as a Don Juan." (Earlier Davies had used the word "libertine".)