Lady Maud's husband can only get a divorce through the Patriarch because he married her out of Russia.

You know about that law, don't you ?' Logotheti understood at last.
'No,' he said, 'I never heard of it.

But if that is the case I may be able to do something--not that I'm considered orthodox at the Patriarchate! The old gentleman has been told that I'm trying to revive the worship of the Greek gods and have built a temple to Aphrodite Xenia in the Place de la Concorde!' 'You're quite capable of it,' observed Griggs.
'Oh, quite! Only, I've not done it yet.

I'll see what I can do.

Are you much interested in the matter ?' 'Only on general principles, because I believe Lady Maud is perfectly straight, and it is a shame that such a creature as Leven should be allowed to divorce an honest Englishwoman.