“If I have prevented one divorce I have not lived in vain.”
“You don't think I have a right to ask for one?”
“Absolutely and most emphatically not.”
“In spite of anything he may do?”
“Anything! He will come back to you, Charity. Possess your soul in patience. It may be years, but keep the light burning and he will return.”
“In what condition?”
“My child, you shock me! You've been reading the horrible literature that gets printed under the guise of science.”
“I must wait, then?”
“Yes, if you wish to separate from him for a time, your absence might waken him to a realizing sense. There are no children, I believe.”
“None, yet.”