human
Goodness me, girl, she cried,
gpt
Getting a divorce,
human
Mary O'Neill, are you mad? she cried.
gpt
Divorce indeed! No woman of our family has ever disgraced herself like that. What will your father say? What's to happen to Betsy Beauty? What are people going to think about me?
human
What does that matter now? Hundreds of thousands of women have married the wrong man of their own free will, but if every woman who has made a rue-bargain were to try to get out of it your way where would the world be, I wonder? Perhaps you think you could marry somebody else, but you couldn't. What decent man wants to marry a divorced woman even if she _is_ the injured party?
gpt
Then you think I ought to submit--tamely submit to such infidelities?
human
Sakes alive, said Aunt Bridget,
gpt
Will that make my husband any better?
human
I don't say it will, said Aunt Bridget.
gpt
It will make _you_ better, though. What the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't grieve for. That's something, isn't it?