I tell you the simple truth when I say that more than half these men regard their wives with active disgust.

They will do anything to be relieved of the sight of them for as many hours as possible at a time.

If circumstances allowed, wives would be abandoned very often indeed.' Rhoda laughed.
'You regret that it isn't done ?' 'I prefer to say that I approve it when it is done without disregard of common humanity.

There's my friend Orchard.

With him it was suicide or freedom from his hateful wife.