'It looks so badly to take money, you know, doesn't it?
But if I must be divorced, it really strikes me as delightfully original to have it done by the Patriarch of Constantinople! Doesn't it, my dear ?' 'It's not usual, certainly,' said Margaret gravely.
She was puzzled by the other's attitude, and somewhat horrified.
'I suppose you think I'm a very odd sort of person,' said Lady Maud, 'because I don't mind so much as most women might.

You see, I never really cared for Leven, though if I had not thought I had a fancy for him I wouldn't have married him.

My people were quite against it.

The truth is, I couldn't have the husband I wanted, and as I did not mean to break my heart about it, I married, as so many girls do.

That's my little story! It's not long, is it ?' She laughed, but she very rarely did that, even when she was amused, and now Margaret's quick ear detected here and there in the sweet ripple a note that did not ring quite like the rest.