At the same time he was honest enough to know that sooner or later he must marry. He would produce the longed-for heir to the title, although the idea appalled him.
Charles was right in speculating that he had been disillusioned.
He could still remember the way the girl he had admired and whom he was attracted to had laughed at his interest in Greece.
She had sneered at the poems he found so beautiful and at the statues he took her to see in the British Museum.
The Elgin Marbles had thrilled him ever since he had seen them when he was quite small.
On his first vacation from Oxford he had gone to Paris to see the Grecian statues in the Louvre and the sculptures in Munich and because they meant so much to him, he had brought back for the girl drawings and photographs of what had thrille
