Of course, divorce is an evil that, broadly speaking, threatens the sanctity of our home life--no one understands that better than your husband--and re-marriage after divorce is usually an outrageous scandal--one, indeed, altogether too common--sometimes I wonder what we're coming to, it seems to be done so thoughtlessly--but individual instances are different--'exceptions prove the rule,' you know, as the old saying goes.

Now Harold is ready to settle down, and the girl is of excellent family and all that--quite the social and moral brace he needs, in fact." Nancy was attentive, yet a little puzzled.
"But--you speak of your son, Harold--is he not already married ?" "That's it, my dear.

You know what a funny, bright, mischievous boy Harold is--even a little deliciously wild at times--doubtless you read of his marriage when it occurred--how these newspapers do relish anything of the sort--she was a theatrical young woman--what they call a 'show girl,' I believe.

Humph!--with reason, I _must_ say! Of all the egregious and inveterate showiness! My dear, she is positively a creature! Oh, if they'd only invent a monocle that would let a young man pierce the glamour of the footlights.

I pledge you my word, she's--but never mind that! Harold was a thoughtless, restless boy--not bad, you know, but heedless.