Perhaps he had to cover up who he really was for a long time in order to be accepted by

these people.

And when he was accepted, it was as if the cover, the mask, started to slip and his behavior

started to slip.

I'm Kate Winkler-Dawson, a true crime historian, author, and the host of Tenfold More Wicked

on Exactly Right.

For this season, our ninth will be in 1800s England and Australia.

This is the story of a man who wanted everyone to see his goodness.

I'm sure to an extent he very much believed in the Quake beliefs and his values were on

the surface at least very in line with the Quake values.

But he just couldn't help himself.

I do wonder, though, whether at the back of his mind when he was doing it, there was

the idea that if I do get caught, I won't be hanged because I'm a Quaker.

It's about the dark secrets he struggled to keep.

He was very concerned about his wife finding out about the affair, but then when it's threatened

with exposure, you just need to face the reality of it.

She didn't know he was struggling financially.

She made a very good, pre-nup agreement.

It's about a woman who wanted independence and then demanded it.

I think there were probably far more women in Sarah Hart's position

who would have just been discarded and would have just had to manage somehow.

I think he saw Sarah as increasingly inconvenient to him.

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