Well, a man never knows much about a woman anyway, and what little he learns is acquired by a process of rejection after marriage." "May I ask what you mean ?" "Judging from your history and apparent age, Mr.Curtis, I take it you have not had time to go fooling about after girls ?" "You are certainly right in that respect." "Naturally, or you wouldn't be so ignorant concerning the dear creatures.

You are to be congratulated, 'pon my soul.

You will have the rare experience of constructing a divinity out of a wife, whereas the average man begins by choosing a divinity and finds he has only secured a wife." Curtis laughed, but met the detective's penetrating gaze frankly.
"Your bitter philosophy may be sound, Mr.Clancy," he said, "but it is built on a false premiss.

My marriage is only a matter of form.

It may be legal--indeed, I believe it is--but there can be no dispute as to the nature of the bond between Lady Hermione and myself.