e of _ennui_."
I was still too nervous and embarrassed to make much protest, so he went
on to tell me with what difficulty he supported the boredom of his own
life even in London, with its clubs, its race-meetings, its dances, its
theatres and music halls, and the amusement to be got out of some of the
ladies of society, not to speak of certain well-known professional
beauties.
One of his great friends--his name was Eastcliff--was going to marry the
most famous of the latter class (a foreign dancer at the "Empire"), and
since he was rich and could afford to please himself, why shouldn't he?
When we reached the waterfall at the top of the glen (it had been the
North Cape of Martin Conrad), we sat on a rustic seat which stands
there, and then, to my still deeper embarrassment, his lordship's
conversation came to close quarters.
Throwing away his cigar and taking his silver-haired terrier on his lap
he said:
"Of course you know what the business is which the gentlemen are
discussing in the library?"
As well as I could for the nervousness that was stifling me, I answered
that I knew.
He stroked the dog with one hand, prodded his stick into the gravel with
the other, and said:
"Well, I don't know what your views about marriage are. Mine, I may say,
are liberal."
I listened without attempting to reply.
"I think nine-tenths of the trouble that attends married life--the
breakdowns and what not--come of an irrational effort to tighten the
marriage knot."
Still I said nothing.
"To imagine that two independent human beings can be tied together like
a couple of Siamese twins, neither to move without the other, living
precisely the same life, year in, year out . . . why, it's silly,
positively silly."
In my ignorance I could find nothing to say, and after another moment my
intended husband swished the loosened gravel with his stick and said:
"I believe in married people leaving each other free--each going his and
her own way--what do you think?"
I must have st
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