convenance

"Quelle convenance," flutes Cyril.

"At the Poison Inn, as diversion for the Convenance, which currently is in residence at Pamg."

In verse 26 we are vividly reminded of Herbert Spencer's words "'Le mariage de convenance' is legalised prostitution."

Would it not be prudent for the State to recognize this welcome metamorphosis and contract, as it were, a manage de convenance with the 'bride of Christ'?

And she'd seen the unhappiness of a loveless mariage de convenance, the tension, the bitterness, the resentment of young brides as they tried to pretend they didn't know about the concubines their husbands kept in those little cottages on Rampart Street.