‘Well?’
‘I am quite sure you will make her miserable. You are marrying too young. Your character is not fixed. In a few years, before that, you will want to get rid of her.’
‘Well, that is at all events intelligible. And your grounds for the belief?’
‘You are inconstant, and you are ambitious. You might marry a woman from a class higher than your own, and when it is too late you will understand what you have lost.’
‘Worldly advantages, precisely.’
‘And how if your keen appreciation of worldly advantages results in your wife’s unhappiness?’
‘I deny the keen appreciation, in your sense.’
‘Of course you do. Come to me in ten years and tell me your opinion of women’s ways of thinking.’
This was the significant part of their conversation. Wilfrid came to land confirmed in his views; Mrs
