It is shocking that he has never been made to realize his duties as a citizen.

Every wealthy man should be compelled to study the laws of his country." Mrs.Dorset glanced at her quietly.

"I think he HAS studied the divorce laws.

He told me he had promised the Bishop to sign some kind of a petition against divorce." Mrs.Fisher reddened under her powder, and Stepney said with a laughing glance at Miss Bart: "I suppose he is thinking of marriage, and wants to tinker up the old ship before he goes aboard." His betrothed looked shocked at the metaphor, and George Dorset exclaimed with a sardonic growl: "Poor devil! It isn't the ship that will do for him, it's the crew." "Or the stowaways," said Miss Corby brightly.

"If I contemplated a voyage with him I should try to start with a friend in the hold." Miss Van Osburgh's vague feeling of pique was struggling for appropriate expression.