This is not a pretty world, and there's no reason why you should think me better than lots of other women.

And besides, I don't care!' 'But surely you won't let your husband get a divorce for such a reason as that without making a defence ?' 'Before the Patriarch of Constantinople ?' Lady Maud evidently thought the idea very amusing.

'It sounds like a comic opera,' she added.

'Why should I defend myself?
I shall be glad to be free; and as for the story, the people who like me will not believe any harm of me, and the people who don't like me may believe what they please.

But I'm very glad you showed me that article, disgusting as it is.' 'I was beginning to be sorry I had brought it.' 'No.