I never thought much about divorce, but I can see that much at once.

Of course, Allan takes the Church's attitude, which survives from a time when a woman was bought and owned; when the God of Moses classed her with the ox and the ass as a thing one must not covet." "You really think if a woman has made a failure of her marriage she has a right to break it." "That seems sound as a general law, Nance--better for her to make a hundred failures, for that matter, than stay meekly in the first because of any superstition.

But, mind you, if she suspects that the Church may, after all, have succeeded in tying up the infinite with red-tape and sealing-wax--believes that God is a large, dark notary-public who has recorded her marriage in a book--she will do better to stay.

Doubtless the conceit of it will console her--that the God who looks after the planets has an eye on her, to see that she makes but one guess about so uncertain a thing as a man." "Then you would advise--" "No, I wouldn't.

The woman who has to be advised should never take advice.