Marriage?
Good Lord! don't you know nothing can abrogate that?
Of course, in case of crime, one can get a divorce; but there is no other way.

Seven years?
By Jove! A good idea that.

Why, man, if that were so, the kingdom would be depopulated.

Husbands running off from wives, and wives from husbands, to pass the required seven years abroad.

By Jove! You see, too, there's another thing, my boy.