The Age of Innocence • Paragraph 484
Stage 1 of 6

Read it through once

"Well--what's the use? _she's_ here--he's there; the Atlantic's between them. She'll never get back a dollar more of her money than what he's voluntarily returned to her: their damned heathen marriage settlements take precious good care of that. As things go over there, Olenski's acted generously: he might have turned her out without a penny."