At last he said—
“Esther, I can get a divorce.”
“You’d much better go back to your wife. Once married, always married, that’s my way of thinking.”
“I’m sorry to hear you say it, Esther. Do you think a man should stop with his wife who’s been treated as I have been?”
Esther avoided a direct reply. Why should he care about the child? He had never done anything for him. William said that if he had known there was a child he would have left his wife long ago. He believed that he loved the child just as much as she did, and didn’t believe in marriage without children.
“That would have been very wrong.”
“We ain’t getting no for’arder by discussing them things,” he said, interrupting her. “We can’t say good-bye after this evening and never see one another again.”
“Why not? I’m nothing to y
