No need to cringe any more to the insolence and cruelty of men.

A woman's life may be soiled and broken; but in the great human workshop of America it can be repaired.

She remembered that in the majority of American divorces it is the woman who applies for relief.
And why not?
The average woman, when she marries, knows much less of life and the world than the average man.

She is more likely--poor soul!--to make mistakes.
She drew closer to the bed.

All round her glimmered the furniture and appointments of a costly room--the silver and tortoise-shell on the dressing-table, the long mirrors lining the farther wall, the silk hangings of the bed.