You can eat your cake, and have it too.

Husbands go off for good long times, and leave their wives behind them.

I think it's delightful!" "I wonder if Katy will think it quite so delightful," remarked Rose.
"Girls are not always so anxious to ship their husbands off for what you call 'good long times.'" "I think she ought.

It seems to me perfectly unnatural that any one should want to leave her own family and go away for always.

I like Ned dearly, but except for this blessed arrangement about going to sea, I don't see how Katy could." "Clover, you are a goose.