"I suppose so."
"But I don't know. I'm only a very ignorant old man; your friend, if you'll have me."
"What do you think?"
"So far as I see, Jesse, the woman can arraign you on a charge of bigamy. Moreover, if you seek divorce she can plead that there's equal guilt, from which there's no release."
"And that's the law?"
"Man's law. But, Jesse, when you and Kate were joined in holy matrimony, was it man's law which said, 'Whom God hath joined, let no man put asunder.' What has man's law to do with the awful justice of Almighty God?
"And here, my son, I am something more than a foolish old man." He rose to his feet, making the sign of the cross. "I am ordained," he said, "a barrister to plead at the bar of Heaven. Will you not have me as your adviser, Jesse?"
"Whom God hath joined," Jesse laughed horribly, "that harlot and I."
"She swore to love, honor and obey?"
"Till death us part!"