Many women had done the same.
"Suppose if you were to tell your wife I was going to reform," said Demorest, "it might be different, eh?
She'd want to take me into the church--'another sinner saved,' and all that, eh ?" "No," said Blandford, earnestly.

"Joan isn't as rigid as all that, Dick.
What she's got against you is the common report of your free way of living, and that--come now, you know yourself, Dick, that isn't exactly the thing a woman brought up in her style can stand.

Why, she thinks I'm unregenerate, and--well, a man can't carry on business always like a class meeting.

But are you thinking of reforming ?" he continued, trying to get a glimpse of his companion's eyes.
"Perhaps.

It depends.