"But if your efforts after a time prove fruitless, will persistence be of any avail? Won't it simply make her more irreconcilable and unyielding?"
"You mean will I divorce her—or permit her to obtain a divorce?"
Devereux nodded.
"Most assuredly not!" Lorraine declared. "If I'm not to have her, who belongs to me, none else shall."
"Sort of a dag in the manger business?" Devereux smiled.
"Not at all.—I'm simply keeping what is mine."
"Not exactly—you will be keeping what was yours but is yours no longer."
"You think that I should let her go?"
"If a reconciliation is impossible, I think that you should let her go. What is more, you should make it possible for her to get the divorce."
"You mean I should admit——"