... not on the state of the law, but on the woman’s knowledge of the state of the law; that women in general are, from their confined education in these respects, especially ignorant of the laws ... that the probable results of a more favorable and just decision, under such a power of control, would have been the avoidance of a great public scandal; the submission of the separated mother ... proof. Add to this the absurd law of condonation, which takes away from the woman who has forgiven acts of cruelty and returned home, the power of complaining of them afterwards; and there...