At this Sesame the door opened a trifle, but when he tried to enter, a hand thrust him back and a voice again warned him off. "You musn't come in."
"But I'm your husband."
"That's just why you musn't come in." The door opened a little wider to give him a view of a downcast beauty moaning:
"Oh, Arthur, I'm so afraid."
"Afraid?" he sniffed. "With your husband here?"
"That's the trouble, Arthur. What if your former wife should find us together?"
"But she and I are divorced."
"In some states, yes—but other states don't acknowledge the divorce. That former wife of yours is a fiend to pursue us this way."
"She's no worse than your former husband. He's pursuing us, too. My divorce was as good as yours, my dear."
"Yes, and no better."