So every now and then it amuses me to run over in my auto to Louvain and stroll about there and watch 'im as 'e comes out for 'is promenade, pretendin' to be readin' a breviary or some holy book.

I know it riles 'im....
"Well, but for high principles, 'e and I might 'a bin as 'appy as 'appy and 'ad a large family.

And there was nothin' to stop 'im a-marryin' me, if that was all he wanted to feel comfortable about it.

But jus' see.

He's had a life that seems to me downright sterile, and I--well, I ain't been _really_ happy till we made it up three years ago" (leans over, and kisses Vivie a little timorously).
"Now there's you, burning yourself out 'cos your high principles won't let you go for once in a way on the spree with this Rossiter--s'posin' 'e's game, of course....