“I tell you I do not want a divorce. I love him, and I will remain his true, faithful wife till he comes back to me!”
CHAPTER XXVI.
ONLY A MONTH
“When a woman will, she will
And when she won’t, she won’t,
And there’s an end on’t!”
Judge Van Lew, with all his threats and entreaties, found it impossible to combat Viola’s resolution.
She refused point-blank to apply for a divorce from Rolfe Maxwell.
“Papa, he was kind to me when I did not seem to have a friend left on earth, when all my lovers had turned against me!” she said, plaintively.
“You had me, Viola.”