When it is falsehood alone, it is easily endured.

The husband and wife simply deceive the world by professing to live monogamically.
If they really are polygamous and polyandrous, it is bad, but acceptable.

But when, as often happens, the husband and the wife have taken upon themselves the obligation to live together all their lives (they themselves do not know why), and from the second month have already a desire to separate, but continue to live together just the same, then comes that infernal existence in which they resort to drink, in which they fire revolvers, in which they assassinate each other, in which they poison each other." All were silent, but we felt ill at ease.
"Yes, these critical episodes happen in marital life.

For instance, there is the Posdnicheff affair," said the lawyer, wishing to stop the conversation on this embarrassing and too exciting ground.

"Have you read how he killed his wife through jealousy ?" The lady said that she had not read it.