Captain Aylmer had said that he should return to London on the Saturday, the present day being Tuesday, and Clara accused him of escaping always from the real hard work of his position.

"I observe that you never stay a Sunday at Perivale," she said.
"Well;--not often.

Why should I?
Sunday is just the day that people like to be at home." "I should have thought it would not have made much difference to a bachelor in that way." "But Sunday is a day that one specially likes to pass after one's own fashion." "Exactly;--and therefore you don't stay with my aunt.

I understand it all completely." "Now you mean to be ill-natured!" "I mean to say that I don't like Sundays at Perivale at all, and that I should do just as you do if I had the power.

But women,--women, that is, of my age,--are such slaves! We are forced to give an obedience for which we can see no cause, and for which we can understand no necessity.