1. In this matrimonial case, a husband accused his wife of living in adultery with her own foster father. He asked for a divorce on that ground. The trial court granted him a decree. But the district court in appeal reversed it. In this second appeal the same outrageous allegation is again made by the husband against his wife.

2. Fornication between a foster parent and his ward is not exactly incestuous. Yet it is too revolting to the human mind to be of frequent occurrence even in imagainative fiction. There is only one modern classic I know of in this genre: Nabakovs “Lolita“Lolita—by Vladimir Nabakov.But even in that literary masterpiece, the principal characters were quite abnormal. One was a self-confessed old reprobate; the other was a teasing teenage nymphet. Such an unholy combination must be extremely rare in real life, almost as infrequent as rank incest. I do not rule out cases where individuals may practise sex behind closed shutters, all the while masquerading outside under an assumed consanguinity. The possibility of such cases, or, rather, the prepossession in ones mind of their existence, might render difficult the task of distinguishing a genuine relatio