"Suppose a man had been divorced through no fault of his own?" he said in a far-away voice.
"I don't think a divorced person ought ever to remarry."
"That might hit some people very hard," said Henry Harper, perhaps without a full understanding of the words he used.
"There are bound to be cases in which it would work very cruelly. One realizes that. But ought it to make a difference? There must always be those who have to be sacrificed for the sake of the community."
Henry Harper appreciated the strength of that argument. At the moment, in the strangeness of his surroundings, he was not able to grapple with it. But he was dimly aware that almost unknown to himself he had come to the border of another perilous country.
XII
As the June night was ablaze with stars Edward Ambrose and the Sailor walked some of the way home together.
"I hope you enjoyed yourself," said Ambrose.
Was it possible for a man to do otherwise with gray-eyed Athena sitting beside him nearly the whole evening!