28/47 The marital variety is all around me. Who cares, or is even curious after an hour's gossip has made it stale news? And they go back to their business of money-getting and money-spending--and that's what my friends have taught me. Can you wonder that my familiarity with it all breeds contempt enough to seek almost any amusement in sheer desperation--as you do ?" "I have only one amusement," he said. |