It is as insane and inhuman to force two people to remain in wedlock after it has become odious to them, as it would be to force them into that marriage at first.

Oh, my tender-hearted little one, can you not see that the bondage is more humiliating, more craven than is the idea of the veriest chattel mortgage?
Yet you refuse to let the injured one go free, as you would not refuse the poorest prodigal whose one chance for home and happiness was passing from his sight." "I cannot answer you when you discuss learnedly on such questions," she said, with a weary dignity, "for I have never thought about them.

Why should I?
It has always seemed to me that a man with more than one wife was a--a--Mormon.

It is all so dreadful.

Surely, if a marriage is anything, it is a vow before God." "It is you that make the mistake now," he said, "for the mere form of marriage is nothing but the outward evidence of a union that has already taken place.