He was by no means tired of Lily.
Better than any of his London pleasures was this pleasure of making love in the green fields to Lily Dale.

It was the consequences of it that affrighted him.

Babies with their belongings would come; and dull evenings, over a dull fire, or else the pining grief of a disappointed woman.

He would be driven to be careful as to his clothes, because the ordering of a new coat would entail a serious expenditure.

He could go no more among countesses and their daughters, because it would be out of the question that his wife should visit at their houses.