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stay in his apartment.’
’Seems to me like a lot of fuss for nothing,’ he said.
’What else do you suggest?’ said Hilda. ‘If your name
appears, you will get no divorce from your wife, who is ap-
parently quite an impossible person to be mixed up with.’
’All that!’ he said grimly.
There was a long silence.
’We could go right away,’ he said.
’There is no right away for Connie,’ said Hilda. ‘Clifford
is too well known.’
Again the silence of pure frustration.
’The world is what it is. If you want to live together with-
out being persecuted, you will have to marry. To marry, you
both have to be divorced. So how are you both going about
it?’
He was silent for a long time.
’How are you going about it for us?’ he said.
’We will see if Duncan will consent to figure as co-re-
spondent: then we must get Clifford to divorce Connie: and
you must go on with your divorce, and you must both keep
apart till you are free.’
’Sounds like a lunatic asylum.’
’Possibly! And the world would look on you as lunatics:
or worse.
’What is worse?’
’Criminals, I suppose.’
’Hope I can plunge in the dagger a few more times yet,’
he said, grinning. Then he was silent, and angry.
’Well!’ he said at last. ‘I agree to anything. The world is a

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