I know, I have both coaxed and ordered her for four years--sometimes one way is best, and sometimes the other." "How is a man to tell which way to take?
What do her parents think of the marriage ?" "They are pleased with it." "Pleased with it! Then I have nothing more to say, except that I hope they will not appeal to me on any question of divorce that may arise from such an unlikely marriage." "They are only lovers yet, Edward," said Ruth.

"It is not fair, or kind, to even think of divorce." "My dear Ruth, the fashionable girl of today accepts marriage with the provision of divorce." "Dora is hardly one of that set." "I hope she may keep out of it, but marriage will give her many opportunities.

Well, I am sorry for the young priest.

He isn't fit to manage a woman like Dora Denning.

I am afraid he will get the worst of it." "I think you are very unkind, father.