[Mrs. Don-o]

So he's supposed to be a guardian for this virgin, and she turns up pregnant? Wouldn't you think this would offend his sense of propriety? Isn't it a tribute to his uprightness that he just says, "She's obviously going her own way. OK, she goes on with her life, and I'll go on with mine. No need to punish her, I'll divorce her quietly."

I could understand and respect that response. It's not til he realizes that the child is from God, that the way forward with Mary seems clear to him again.

[Elsie]

I could understand and respect that response.

I do NOT understand OR respect your assertions:

Mary and Joseph both knew they would not be having marital sex (which is why Mary asks "How shall this happen?" when she is told by Archangel Gabriel she will conceive) Joseph was marrying her more as a guardian, than as a husband in the conjugal sense of the word.