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Fox! in the garden! jumped the fence!
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Slow British Library wifi is slow. But free.
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In a case for annulment of marriage, on the grounds of the husband's impotence, I cannot help feeling that an additional reservation about his manhood would have been registered by the court on discovering that, being in North America on holiday in late summer 1914, he had contacted his employers to indicate that he would feel safer remaining on that side of the Atlantic. I'm surprised they didn't send him a white feather along with the decree nisi.
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Furthermore, the judge quite early on expressed the opinion, that as nullity cases were no longer held in camera, 'this is a case where ladies, I think, should leave the Court; I think it would be better if any ladies would leave the Court.' When he and counsel were merely in the process of establishing husband's legal domicile.
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Chronology undermines theory posited not just by me but by contemporaries on the motives for bringing The Famous Libel Suit.
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