“You might have come to it in the course of time,” he replied.
“Don’t you see that he’d have to give up being a clergyman?” she exclaimed.
“That’s been done before,” he said.
“But—see it from his point of view! Think of the scandal!”
“I don’t think much about scandals,” Thyrsis answered. “That part could be arranged.”
“But do the laws give people divorces in that way?”
“Our divorce laws are relics of feudalism,” he answered. “One does not take them seriously.”
“But how can you get around them, Thyrsis?”
“You simply have to admit whatever offense they require.”
“But Thyrsis! Think how that would seem to Mr. Harding!”