Then she added,
“It is – wrong.”
“Of course it is morally speaking,” he agreed, “but life is short and human beings seek happiness wherever they can find it, just as your animals do.”
He felt that she was not quite so tense and he continued,
“I cannot believe that you would turn away from a wounded pheasant that has half-a-dozen wives or from numerous other birds that are extremely promiscuous and from your point of view extremely immoral.”
As if, because they had argued and talked on so many subjects Mina could not help contributing to the conversation, she said,
“Rooks – seldom have more than – one wife.”
As if he thought that he had broken through the invisible barrier that she had surrounded herself with, the Marquis gave a little laugh.
“That is true and an old gamekeeper used
