Do you really doubt the value of the institution of marriage ?" "No.

Marriage is a very good thing when two people are so poor that they depend on each other, mutually, for daily bread, or if they are rich enough to live apart.

For a man in my own position marriage would be the height of folly; an act of rashness only second to deliberate suicide.
Now, you are rich, and if you had but one wife, she living in Delhi and you in Simla, you would doubtless be very happy." "There is something in that," said Isaacs.

"She might mope and beat the servants, but she could not quarrel if she were alone.

Besides, it is so much easier to look after one camel than three.