Then Shylock laughed and said, 'But now let's have a little joke. If you don't pay me back 3,000 gold pieces at the end of three months, you must give me a pound of your flesh. I'll cut the flesh from a part of your body, as I like. Do you agree ?'
Divorce, in Queen Victoria's day, was difficult and expensive. You had to get a private Act of Parliament passed. No wonder some wives used poison to bring their unhappy marriages to an end...
