"Yes, but she isn't going to marry another man, I hope."
"How can she?" said Salvina. "I wouldn't let her make any public scandal."
"But aren't there funny laws in our religion—Get and things like that—which dispense with the English courts."
"I believe there are—I read about something of the kind in a novel—oh, yes! and father did offer mother Get before he went off, so I suppose he considers his conscience clear."
"Well, I rely upon you, Sally, to see that she doesn't marry or complicate things more. We don't want two wicked parents."
"Of course not. But I am sure she doesn't dream of any new complications. You don't do her justice, Kitty. She's just broken-hearted; a perpetual widow, with worse than her husband's death to lament."
"Oh, Kitty, do realize what it means."
"I do, my dear. I do realize it—it's too killing. Passion in a Pantechnicon or Elopements economically conducted. By the day or hour. Oh, dear, oh, dear! But do promise me, Salvina, that you won't go back to Spitalfields."
"I must be somewhere near the school, dearest. It will save train-fares."