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"Is there no way out?" I asked.
"What way can there be?" said Father Dan. "God knows I know what
pressure was put upon you; but you are married, you have made your vows,
you have given your promises. That's all the world sees or cares about,
and in the eyes of the law and the Church you are responsible for all
that has happened."
With my head still buried in Father Dan's cassock I got it out at last.
"But annulment! Isn't that possible--under the circumstances?" I asked.
The good old priest seemed to be too confused to speak for a moment.
Then he explained that what I hoped for was quite out of the question.
"I don't say that in the history of the Church marriages have not been
annulled on equally uncertain grounds, but in this case the civil law
would require proof--something to justify nullity. Failing that there
would have to be collusion either on one side or both, and that is not
possible--not to you, my child, not to the daughter of your mother, that
dear saint who suffered so long and was silent.


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