This being so, the man is really the servant and the fount of emotion, love and otherwise.
Which is all very well, while the fun lasts.

But like all perverted processes, it is exhaustive, and like the fun wears out.

Leaving an exhaustion, and an irritation.

Each looks on the other as a perverter of life.

Almost invariably a married woman, as she passes the age of thirty, conceives a dislike, or a contempt of her husband, or a pity which is too near contempt.