Nobility and men of wealth could have a wife and as many mistresses as they could manage. Just the one wife.

[Claire's quiet for a moment. Not upset, just contemplative. He brought this up, but she doesn't think he actually cares too much about her marriages. Yet she decides to talk, settling her gaze on the waves.]

I loved both my husbands. I planned to spend the rest of my life with Frank, and it would have been a happy one, I think. I never imagined I would... go so terribly off track. I never wanted to marry Jamie. But I had no choice, and... I ended up loving him more than I loved anyone else. I'd never felt anything like it.

So, when I thought he was dead, and I went back to Frank, I tried to get him to leave me. To dissolve the marriage. I said terrible things to a good man that refused to go because he ended up loving Brianna as his own. He didn't want to lose her. I loved him still, but it was a broken love, then.

[She looks back to Theon with a wry smile, if not a little sad.]

I don't think too many husbands would want me if they had to go through that.