Woman absent is woman dead.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.

QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.

PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.