Was she to have a bad effect on every man she met?
"I won't make excuses, Harry," she said.

"They're so hopeless.

But I want you to know that I sprang into marriage before I'd given a thought to what it all meant, and I took it as a lark, a chapter in my adventure, something that I could easily stop and look at after I'd seen and done everything and was a little breathless.

I thought that Martin had gone into it in the same spirit and that for the joke of the thing we were just going to play at keeping house, as we might have played at being Indians away in the woods.

It was the easiest way out of a hole I was in and made it possible for me not to creep back to my grandmother and take a whipping like a dog.