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"Oh, I'm quite a safe old party," I assured her. "They couldn't make capital of me." "The grouse was delicious," she said, deliberately changing the subject. Nice divorcees are always doing that.
Claire The Young Divorcée And so you have joined the increasing army of the divorcées. It is worse than useless to discuss again the causes which led to this situation, and now that the law of the land has made you a free woman, the one thing for you to consider is your future, and to formulate to some degree a code of conduct for your guidance.
And now as the murmurs and quick low cries, piano music, a baritone voice and a sudden burst of laughter, came to her ears, she gravely named her neighbours: "Wives and husbands, divorcees, secret lovers, grafters, burglars, suffragettes, actresses and anarchists and millionaires and poor young things all spending a quiet evening at home. And that's so sensible in you all.
"As if you didn't know," she austerely rebuked, "that, when company comes, I always have supper right here in my own room." It would have been a surrender of principle for Hannah Burton to call "company" guests, or the evening meal "dinner." "There were some very smart people down-stairs, I'm told," the man heckled with twinkling eyes. "Divorcées in numbers and affinities galore."
"This is the route you all go," he replied with grim humor, and his words pictured a ceaseless stream of divorcées. She resented his classing her with the rest, but she simply said: "You despise me, don't you? But what can we do? You can't expect us to live with men we hate, can you? That would be worse than Mrs. Shellberg." "No, I don't expect that of you.
Divorce is not countenanced by opinion in Paris, though permitted by law. With a few exceptions in extraordinary cases, I have observed that les divorcees are not received into good society. To satiate your curiosity, I send you all the papers that have been written lately on this subject, of which you will find that of Cambaceres the best. The wits say that he is an impartial judge.
The regular theatre was bad enough, said the civic purity league; in fact, they had started a campaign against that the month before, right after a one-night engagement of the Jolly Paris Divorcees Burlesque Company, which, I gathered, had not upheld the very highest standards of dramatic art.
"She is no better than a shackled slave; her position in the man's house is that of a concubine." "What shall she do?" cried Stafford with a shrug of his shoulders and a cynical laugh. "Get a divorce," retorted Virginia. "Divorce!" echoed the railroad man mockingly. "The world is full of divorcées. Everyone looks down on them. They have a bad name. What does she gain by that?"
And now we come to "Divorce" which, if not actually an industry, can all the same easily pass for one, for there is no doubt but that the influx of prospective divorcees, of both sexes, contributes a goodly portion toward the financial welfare of Reno.
Once in the winter the rector would come to dine, and her husband would beg her to go over the list and see that no DIVORCEES were included, except those who had showed signs of penitence by being re-married to the very wealthy. There was nothing especially arduous in this round of religious obligations; but it stood for a fraction of that great bulk of boredom which loomed across her path.
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