He seemed to mean what he said.
"I know nothing!" she exclaimed.
"It's far better that you should know nothing," he said paternally, "and you wrong yourself, I'm sure.

You play very nicely, I'm told, and I've no doubt you've read heaps of learned books." Elderly banter would no longer check her.
"You talk of unity," she said.

"You ought to make me understand." "I never allow my wife to talk politics," he said seriously.

"For this reason.

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.