Theresa may be happy, but not Ross.

He's far too intelligent.

And Theresa isn't capable of giving him even those moments of happiness that repay the intelligent for their routine of the other sort of thing." "Marriage doesn't mean much in a man's life," said Adelaide.

"He has his business or profession.

He is married only part of each day, and that the least important part to him." "Yes," replied Henrietta, "marriage is for a man simply a peg in his shoe--in place or, as with Ross Whitney, out of place.