This is a long-drawn-out petition, having a tangled history which must be set out briefly for the purpose of understanding the facts and issues involved.

2. The petition is by Dr. Dwaraka Bai, M.B.B.S.an Indian Christian doctor of Guntur, now aged 43, for divorce against her husband Professor Nainan Mathews M.A., B.L., a retired Indian Christian Professor, now aged 60, and till recently a regular student of the United Theological College, Bangalore. The petitioner took her M.B.B.S degree in Madras in 1935 and began practising at Guntur where her father also is a doctor When she became nearly 36 years old, i.e., in the beginning of 1946, she felt an urgent desire to get married. She, therefore, wanted to find out a suitable man to marry. One Mrs. Joseph, a Syrian Christian doctor of Bapatla, in Guntur district, told her about the respondent, Nainan Mathews, and told her also that he was by age, education, culture, family and character eminently fitted to be her husband. So, a long paper correspondence began between Mrs. Joseph and the respondent and then between the petitioner and the respondent. The petitioner told the respondent in Ex.P.27 dated 23-2-46 that she had acqui