Sometimes Phineas wondered if Ursula was in fact, from another planet. The outrageous notions she got sometimes, were purely ridiculous.

He listened to her full reasoning, had to stop himself from both laughing at her and being vaguely impressed by the thought she put into the situation. He leaned back in his chair while she rambled on, trying not to consider the benefits of what she was proposing against the sheer audacity of the suggestion. It did have merits, but it was the principal of the thing.

"A separation, in which we agree we can find companionship outside our marriage..." He wanted to make sure he was hearing this right. Phineas also wanted Ursula to hear out loud how ridiculous this sounded. "I simply need to continue to support you financially in the meantime?" Not having to be in the same house most of the time was appealing, but Phineas rather thought this was not going to work out in the end.