“Knew what?” asked Clare anxiously.
Madge Vernon looked at her in a pitying way.
“It’s in the evidence on the Royal Commission on Divorce.”
“What is?”
“About the Eighth Year.”
“What about it?” asked Clare. She was beginning to feel annoyed. What was Madge hiding from her?
“Why,” said Madge, “about it being the fatal year in marriage.”
“The fatal year?”
The girl leaned forward in her chair and said in a solemn way:
“There are more divorces begun in the Eighth Year than in any other period.”