But, even if it did, I should not let it pass unchallenged.

I break a lance with you, Aubrey Treherne, and with all men of your way of thinking, on behalf of every true wife and mother in Christendom! "You say, that if a man has disappointed his wife, she has a right to leave him; the fact of that disappointment sets her free?
"I say to you, in answer: when a woman loves a man enough to wed him, he becomes to her as her life--her very self.
"I often fail, and fall, and disappoint myself.

I do not thereupon immediately feel free to commit suicide.

I face my failure, resolve to do better, and take up my life again, as bravely as may be, on higher lines.
"If a woman leaves her husband she commits moral suicide.

By virtue of his union with her, he is as her own self.