She turned the television off. “It makes one feel quite awkward to mention such a thing, but after all I think that it is best for both parties. And yet that could not be: it was a confession only in the event of his death. I’ve made no one happy. He glanced down between the still narrow distance that lay between Melusine and himself, and discovered her hand there, a very small dagger within it. I thought you might like to see. She sat in a chair in the parlour and regarded the darkening sky through the small casement window. “It’s a flabby, loose-willed world we have to face. Will you let me go out of this room?” “No,” cried Ramage; “hear me out! I’ll have that satisfaction, anyhow. A phase of mental activity that men called courage: to summon at will this energy which barred the ingress of the long cold fingers of fear, which cleared the throat of stuffiness and kept the glance level and ever forward. We do not remember to have met with a single individual, reported to be under petticoat government, who was not content with his lot,—nay, who so far from repining, did not exult in his servitude; and we see no way of accounting for this apparently inexplicable conduct—for which, among other phenomena of married life, various reasons have been assigned, though none entirely satisfactory to us—except upon the ground that these domineering dames possess some charm sufficiently strong to counteract the irritating effect of their tempers; some secret and attractive quality of which the world at large is in ignorance, and with which their husbands alone can be supposed to be acquainted. I told you no good would come of it.
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