Again, even after divorce has been consummated, there are so many small habits to be broken, heritage and hold-over of relations but recently sundered. For instance, if one has been accustomed every Friday evening to have shoulder of pork and boiled cabbage at table, and if only one woman has evinced ability to prepare shoulder of pork and cabbage in the proper manner, and if that woman has chanced to be one's lately current wife, it is, let us repeat, an annoying thing to find that that particular woman, after deliberately forming and fostering in one a craving for shoulder of pork and cabbage--after having established an addiction, as it were, in one's soul for that viand--has with shameless disregard of wifely duty and domestic decency obliged one to divorce her, perhaps _ex vinculo_, or at least _ab mensa et thoro_. And again there may be yet other habits upon the one hand or the other which must be broken or readjusted. If one's wife--or one of one's wives--has been in the habit of leaving her tatting each afternoon on the top of the table near the best view out of the bow window, and if one sees continually this abandoned tatting permanently left there in the confusion of her permanent departure--it is annoying, let us repeat, to be reminded of a habit to whose creator we have said farewell. It causes a mental ennui constantly to be removing tatting or embroidery. Or, if one's current wife has had the old-fashioned and not wholly well-bred habit of meeting one at the door of an evening, at the close of the day's labors--just as in the evening the cave woman greeted her man at the mouth of the cave to ask him what had been the fortune of the day's hunt--and if now that footfall, ill-bred, yet after all habitual--and was it wholly unwelcome, after all?--shall have ceased for ever, with what equanimity, let us ask, can we regard the memory of the woman who formed that habit and handed down an annoying expectation to her husband, impossible of fulfillment after her departure?