"Why only 'at first'?" he asked.
Sophy said quietly and rather sadly:
"Because it isn't in his nature to keep up anything for long."
"Mh!" said the Judge.
He took up the paper-weight which he had laid aside and turned it so vigorously that the little cottage and figures within the glass-ball were almost blotted from sight by the mimic snowstorm.
"Divorce is a slow affair in Virginia," he said at last.
"Then I'd rather get mine in the West," said Sophy.
Charlotte looked at her in horror.
"Oh, Sophy!" she cried. "No! ... you wouldn't!... It's ... it's so vulgar!"
"Life is vulgar," said Sophy.