Kiss Cancelled a Divorce

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 364, 19 February 1937, Page 8

Kiss Cancelled a Divorce

'I WAS A FOOL, BUT SHE HAS FORGIVEN ME,’ SAYS HUSBAND

As a divorce decree was about to be pronounced absolute in court in England, it was revealed that husband and wife had become reconciled and wished the decree rescinded. Mr Harold Simmons, appearing for Mrs G. S. Butler, of Brynfield, Benham Hill, Newbury, Berkshire, in whose favour decree had been granted, said: “Since the date of the decree a certain unfortunate association has ceased, and the wife has taken the husband back.” The Judge then rescinded decree. In a half-furnished room at the Broadway, Winchester, the husband, Mr Stanley Butler, his face wreathed in smiles, told a reporter, the story nt’ the broken romance that has been mended. “I have been rather a fool over the whole affair,” he said. “My wife and I have always been very much in love. We were regarded as an ideal couple, but I am afraid that I fell in love with a. girl. My wife knew of the affair, but wished to forgive me.

“I . insisted that there should be a divorce in order to do the right thing by the girl. When I realised what I had done I was a very sad man. “After the case was. over my.wifa eanie to me and said: ‘Stanley, thia is not the end. We shall be together again; even if it is many years hence.** “This tortured me more than anything. I spent over a month of misery and could hardly believe what had happened. I moved from Newbury after the divbrce proceedings, and shortly afterwards opened this ;'iop in Winchester.

“My wife moved, to a bungalow at Porchester, near Southampton, about twenty miles away, with the two children—Margaret,' aged 15, and Frank, aged 13. “At last,” Mr Butler continued, “I could stand it no longer. I found that the girl and I could never get on, and I went to see my wife with a friend. When I went in she said: ‘I know what yon have come for,’ and we kissed each other. We realised that nothing could keep us apart. ” Now the husband, happy again, Is busy preparing the flat for th< return of his wife and family.

He said: “We both feel we shall be as happy as ever we were when we renew our life together.” Smiling, happy, her arms round her two children, Mrs Butler told the Daily Sketch her story of reconciliation. “I was very much against divorce from the first,” she said. “We have been happily married for many years and have had everything in common. *The children often asked me if daddy was coming back.

“When the divorce was over I was upset, but knew we were too fond of each other to separate all our lives. Still, it . was a surprise when he walked into the bungalow.

“There and then we decided to start afresh as though nothing had happened. You should have heard the children’s joyful cries!” There were tears of joy in Mrs Butler’s eyes, too, as she told me: Since Stanley has been coming to see us again life has been heavenly, just Ijke ohi time?. ’ ’ ;