Later, however, they are apt to imagine too much about some little woman without whom life seems duller than need be.

They run away, leaving the first wife well enough dowered.

They are never intentionally unkind to women, and in the end they usually make the mistake of thinking they have had their money's worth of life.

Here was Mr.Harvey Malone, a young specimen in an earlier stage of development, trying to marry Henrietta Lamb, and now sauntering over to speak to Alice, as a time-killer before his next dance with Henrietta.
Alice made no response to his question, and he dropped lazily into the vacant chair, from which she sharply withdrew her hand.

"I might as well use his chair till he comes, don't you think?
You don't MIND, do you, old girl ?" "Oh, no," Alice said.