“But you’ll have got to the end of it if you’ll do what I say.”
A moment later Esther said—
“I don’t know what you want to get a divorce for at all. I daresay your wife would take you back if you were to ask her.”
“She’s no children, and never will have none, and marriage is a poor look-out without children—all the worry and anxiety for nothing. What do we marry for but children? There’s no other happiness. I’ve tried everything else—”
“But I haven’t.”
“I know all that. I know you’ve had a damned hard time, Esther. I’ve had a good week at Doncaster, and have enough money to buy my partner out; we shall ‘ave the ‘ouse to ourselves, and, working together, I don’t think we’ll ‘ave much difficulty in building it up into a very nice property, all of which will in time go to the boy. I’m do
