Lovers are nowhere against husbands, yet how many thousands of good women lose their husbands every year?
If they are poor, they have to hide their grief and work for them-selves and their families; if they are rich, very few people believe that they are really sorry to be widows.

Are any poor creatures more jeered at than widows?
No man believes they are grieving for the loss of their husbands.

Then why should they all sympathize with Claudine about the loss of a lover ?" "Perhaps lovers are nicer than husbands." "Pretty much all alike.

I have known a few good husbands.

Your grandfather was one, your father another.