The Way We Live Now (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #76]

by Anthony Trollope

omitted to ask himself whether he would have forgiven her very readily had he found that she had been living ‘nearly three weeks ago’ in close intercourse with another lover of whom he had hitherto never even heard the name. But then — as all the world knows — there is a wide difference between young men and young women!