22/35 Marriage, my dear, is an institution worn threadbare. Ten years hence there will be only free women and husbands on trial. Ten years hence the Countess Larinski will be a liberated countess. Let her serve her time as a galley-slave, and she will come out entirely cured of her follies." Just as Princess Gulof was finishing this remarkable declaration of her principles, the door opened and Mlle. |