The hero and heroine are engaged against their wishes. They like one
another very well but each is in love with some one else; nevertheless,
under an uncle’s will, they forfeit large property unless they marry one
another, so they get married, making no secret to one another that they
dislike it very much.
On the evening of their wedding day they broach the subject that has long
been nearest to their hearts—the possibility of being divorced. They
discuss it tearfully, but the obstacles seem insuperable. Nevertheless
they agree that faint heart never yet got rid of fair lady, “None but the
brave,” exclaims the husband, “deserve to lose the fair,” and they plight
their most solemn vows that they will henceforth live but for the object
of getting divorced from one another.
But the course of true divorce never did run smooth, and the plot turns
upon the difficulties that meet them and how they try to overcome them.
At one time they seem almost certain of success, but the cup is dashed
from their lips and is farther off than ever.
At last an opportunity occurs in an unlooked-for manner. They are
divorced and live happily apart ever afterwards.