He never came out so well in all his long years of sincerity and publicity as he does in this one act of deception.

Having made up his mind to that act, he is not ashamed to name it; neither, on the other hand, does he rant about it, and talk about Philistine prejudices and higher laws and brides in the sight of God, after the manner of the cockney decadent.

He was breaking a social law, but he was not declaring a crusade against social laws.

We all feel, whatever may be our opinions on the matter, that the great danger of this kind of social opportunism, this pitting of a private necessity against a public custom, is that men are somewhat too weak and self-deceptive to be trusted with such a power of giving dispensations to themselves.

We feel that men without meaning to do so might easily begin by breaking a social by-law and end by being thoroughly anti-social.