The Divorce That Crowned Her

Before the marriage, Naomi was Vivian, the lawyer other lawyers did not want to draw. She gave that up to marry Francis and spent three years running the house so he could work without carrying anything else, and he became one of the top names in the profession. Then Iris, the woman he loved before her, comes back and hires him for her divorce. Naomi watches her husband spend his days and nights on Iris's case. She is jealous and she also knows it is his job, and he is too busy to notice what it is doing to her, so the misunderstandings pile up. At a dinner with his friends someone asks what she does. She says she is at home. The look that goes around the table stays with her. She leaves a letter and goes back to the firm where she used to work, where the people who remember her are glad to have her. She takes a case nobody expects to be won and wins it, and the industry starts talking about her again. Francis finds out that the opponent he had respected most in his career is his own wife. He asks why she never told him. She says she gave everything up because she loved him, and that she has thought it through since.