Moreover, if a married man is at a remote cattle station with his girlfriend, the benefits of guarding his wife at home in order to prevent her from taking a lover of her own become prohibitive. It’s impossible to be in two places at once and extremely difficult to watch over an autonomous woman from a distance. It’s also pretty unpleasant to obsess over it. It is better and less “expensive” in every sense for a man to develop a tolerant attitude, and enjoy a girlfriend at the cattle station or in town who may, after all, bear him a child of his own. It also might serve him to have someone
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