"Sunday night." "[Margaret Llewelyn Davies:] She was very full of insurance-act work, but most of all she was occupied with divorce—her enthusiasm is catching and she nearly got me to undertake to write diatribes on the subject—but I told her I couldn't really do anything about divorce in my position. I don't think she has really considered the question all round—she thinks of relieving working women from the burden of drunken or vicious husbands, but she has hardly realized the number of men who would part from their wives simply because they were tired of them. I wish I could do something about it. I am more and more sure that there ought to be no extraneous bond. In most cases, children would be a bond; but where they are not felt to be so, it seems to me simply monstrous that people should be tied. Both the religious view that marriage is a sacrament and the legal view that it is a contract (except as regards money) seem to me utterly and hopelessly wrong. I believe now freedom would produce far less harm than the existing system. And if it loosens the family, so much the better—the family is generally crushing to most of its members."