"You are free again.

Free as the wind!" "This does not place me where I was," Jessie replied.
"Why not?
The law has cancelled your marriage!" said Mrs.Loring.
"You stand in your old relation to the world." "But not to myself," Jessie answered with a deep sigh; and leaving her aunt, she went away to her little chamber, there to sit in solemn debate over this new aspect of affairs in her troubled life.
No--no.

She did not stand in her old relation to herself.

She was not a maiden with lips free from the guile of a false marriage promise; but a divorced wife.

A thing questionably recognized, both in human opinion and divine law.