She accepts week-end invitations to the houses of his nearest relatives.

She has married his first cousin, and is now getting up a bazaar with the help of his present wife.

How he is to avoid her he does not quite see.
Perhaps, by the by, that is really the Problem: where is the early husband to disappear to?
Even if every time he saw her coming he were to duck under the table, somebody would be sure to notice it and make remarks.

Ought he to take himself out one dark night, tie a brick round his neck, and throw himself into a pond?
What is a Lady to do with a Husband when she has finished with him?
But men are so selfish.

The idea does not even occur to him; and the lady herself is too generous to do more than just hint at it.
Maybe it is Society that is to blame.