I am talking to you seriously.

The preservation of our position as a class depends on our observing certain decencies.

What do you imagine would happen to the Royal Family if they were allowed to marry as they liked?
All this marrying with Gaiety girls, and American money, and people with pasts, and writers, and so forth, is most damaging.

There's far too much of it, and it ought to be stopped.

It may be tolerated for a few cranks, or silly young men, and these new women, but for Eustace--" Lady Casterley paused again, and her fingers pinched Barbara's arm, "or for you--there's only one sort of marriage possible.