He offends her and makes himself unhappy, and it sometimes takes six months or more to get back to bearings." "What a lot of silly men and women you must have known, Lenox.

Is that the way Englishmen start marriage in England?
If it is, I don't wonder at Englishmen coming across the Atlantic in liners and air-ships and so on to get American wives.

I guess you can't understand your own womenfolk." "Or perhaps they don't understand us; but anyhow, I don't think I've made any great mistake." "No, I don't think you have.

Of course if I thought so I wouldn't be here now.

But this is very well for a breakfast talk; all the same, I should like to know how we are going to take the promenade you promised me on the surface of the moon ?" "Your Ladyship has only to finish her breakfast, and then everything shall be made plain to her, even the deepest craters of the mountains of the moon." "Very well, then, I will eat swiftly and in obedience; and meanwhile, as your Lordship seems to have finished, perhaps----" "Yes, I will go and see to the mechanical necessities," said Redgrave, swallowing his last cup of coffee, and getting up.