Crossword-Solution: FORMAN 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Her husband had been the friend and patron of Forman, so that by the time Anne had taken Mainwaring for her lover, and had borne him three children, she must have had ample opportunity for seeing through the old charlatan.

There is evidence that the thaumaturgy practised by Forman did not want for lewdness--as magic of the sort does not to this day--and in this regard Master Weldon cannot be far astray when he makes our pretty Anne out to be the veriest baggage.

Badgered, not only by her husband but by her own relatives, scared no doubt, certainly unhappy, unable for politic reasons to appeal freely to her beloved Robin, to whom might Frances turn but the helpful Turner? And to whom, having turned to pretty Anne, was she likely to be led but again to the wizard of Lambeth? Dr Forman had a heart for beauty in distress, but dissipating the ardency of an exigent husband was a difficult matter compared with attracting that of a negligent lover.

His illness lasted for weeks, and during this time her ladyship wrote many a letter to Anne Turner and to Dr Forman.

These, with others and with several curious objects exhibited in court, had been demanded by Mrs Turner after Forman's demise.