"Oh, _what_ will people think of
me?"--is the first cry of everybody--especially women. It was _that_
which made the deserted one unhappy and resentful. It is that which
makes many women pose as injured innocents and rate the deserter as a
villain. And all the time _in secret_ they are glad, _glad_ that they
are relieved of the burden of living with an uncongenial husband
or wife.
Of course there are other reasons why women hate to be left by their
husbands. One is that their support is apt to go with the deserter.
Public opinion keeps many a family in the same house years after it
really _knows_ it is separated widely as the poles.
The dread of having to take care of herself keeps many a woman hanging
like grim death to a man she knows she does not love, and who
despises her.
The fear of public opinion and the love, not of money, but of _ease_,
holds together under one roof tens of thousands of families who have
been _occultly_ and really separated for years.
A man is held by the same sentimental notion that M.T.C. Wing has--that
he must "protect" the woman. So he stays in hell to do it. He _has_ to
stay in hell _until she gets out_.
In almost every one of these separation cases it is the woman and _not_
the man, who gives the signal.
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