Ah, that would indeed have been a _coup_! Never mind, I can at least have the beautiful girl who, though devoted to the unorthodox parson, threw him over on account of his unorthodoxy." "Yes, you are certain of me--that is, if you think I should--if it wouldn't seem a little----" "What nonsense, Phyllis! Where have you been living for the past twenty-three years that you should get such a funny notion into your head?
Do you think that girls nowadays absent themselves from felicity awhile when they find it necessary to become--well, disengaged--yes, or divorced, for that matter ?" "I really can't recollect any case of--" "Of course you can't.

They don't exist.

The proper thing for a women to do when she gets a divorce is to take a box at a theatre and give the audience a chance of recognizing her from her portraits that have already appeared in the illustrated papers.

The block printing has done that too.

There's not a theatre manager in London who wouldn't give his best box to a woman who has come straight from the divorce court.