"From what I've seen, the prevailing attitude on the Disc seems to be that life is too short to spend in an unhappy marriage," she said meditatively. "Some religious socities frown upon it, but on the Sto Plains--particularly in Ankh-Morpork--it's hard to find much of anything that's unduly frowned upon."

She munched a mini-cake, thinking. "Really, if you look at it, it seems many people simply aren't monogomous by nature. As you've said, look how many people take mistresses--and certainly, on the Disc as well as here, many marriages break up because one (or both) parties meet someone else. I think the idea of having a single 'soul-mate' is oftentimes purely romantic fiction." Unlike all the other girls she'd gone to school with, she'd never had any time for the sticky, sappy kind of romance--it was, when you got right down to it, stupid, and worse than that it was silly.