The desire is hopeless, of course.

It's because I know that, that I have made up my mind to travel for a year or two; it'll help me on towards the age when I shall regard all women with indifference.

We won't talk about it any more.' 'One question.

You seriously believe that you could find satisfaction in the life to which such a marriage would condemn you ?' 'What life ?' asked Peak, impatiently.
'That of an average gentleman, let us say, with house in town and country, with friends whose ruling motive was social propriety.' 'I could enjoy the good and throw aside the distasteful.' 'What about the distastefulness of your wife's crass conventionalism, especially in religion ?' 'It would not be _crass_, to begin with.

If her religion were genuine, I could tolerate it well enough; if it were merely a form, I could train her to my own opinions.