Mr. Rohtagi lays emphasis on the facts, namely, that the plaintiff Prem Behari Khare 's wife having died in 1955 leaving behind two sons aged about 2 and 3 years respective ly, he faced great difficulties in managing the household, looking after his sons and carrying on his duties as employ ee of the Allahabad Bank; that under these circumstances he agreed to take in the defendant Mithilesh Kumari whose relation with her husband Ram Swarup was then estranged; that the relation between the plaintiff and the defendant come to be such that she bore two children to him; that there were efforts to legalise their de facto living as man and wife by obtaining defendant 's divorce from her husband, and in fact there was a decree for judicial separation in 1958; that the plaintiff had full confidence in, and affec tion towards the defendant; and that in the court he could give no reason why he purchased the house in the name of the defendant.