THE INNOCENT DIVORCED PERSON
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR ,—I should much like to be allowed to support the lettef from " Layman" appearing in your issue of August 22nd, as I know a very hard case of the kind. A lady in a good social position in a village decided to go and live in London, and she sold her house to her brother who was married and had two boys of school age. The family inherited the social position of the lady and also her friends in the neighbour= hood. The gentleman was a good Churchman, read the lessons in church, and was active in the parish. After a' time the vicar of another parish close by heard that this,
, gentleman had divorced his first wife and told the vicar,I who reported to his Bishop, with the result that the gentlemati and his wife were refused the Sacrament, their friends forsook them and they eventually had to leave. Thus the lives of the whole family were blasted by this, as it seems to me, most cruel action, though I never heard what became of them
afterwards.—I am, Sir, &c., A SQUIREEN.
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