7/24 It would be astonishing if you did. One has only to see you together.... Oh, Biddy, it was so like you to rush off to the other side of the world, and ruin your life for the sake of some strange impracticable idea! I can follow it all....' 'You are mistaken,' she put in. You married in a fit of revulsion against the conditions in which you were living--the hollow shams of an effete civilisation--that's the correct phrase, isn't it? And you thought you had found the remedy for it all. |