"Subconsciously it's the feeling of economical dependence, the dread of ultimate poverty, which has driven half the untrained women one knows into unhappy marriages.

And Lord St.

John recognises it.

He's progressed with the times, bless him!" "But Rooke will be making big money before very long," protested Kitty, keeping firmly to the point and declining to be led aside into one of Penelope's argumentative byeways.

"He'll be able to settle a decent income on his wife in a few years." "Very possibly.