She smoothed out the paper and began: "'Divorce and remarriage of Mrs. Undine Spragg-de Chelles.

The bare mention of remarriage by a widow, though she be only eight or nine years old, would be regarded, says Dubois (I., 191), "as the greatest of insults."

The doubt about the Hazlitts refers chiefly to William Hazlitt's divorce from his first wife in 1822, and his remarriage in 1824 with a Mrs. Bridgewater.

A separation and remarriage like that is a credit to all parties concerned.