39/71 Ugh! Serve you right for getting married. I wonder how people can be so mad as to do it, with the example of their married acquaintances all warning them against it." "You don't know what it is to love," said Henrietta, plaintively, and yet patronizingly. "Besides, we were not like other couples." "So it seems. But never mind, take my word for it, he will return to you as soon as he has had enough of his own company. Don't worry thinking about him, but come and have a game at lawn tennis." During this conversation they had left the drawing-room and made a detour through the grounds. |