“Very well,” she said, glancing idly about her, just as though she were sitting at a tea table. “Did you know that Shelley’s first wife drowned herself in the Serpentine?” “Is my first wife considering the same?” he asked, eyeing her uneasily. “Certainly not. Genevieve says that killing oneself on account of a man is inexcusably gauche. I was merely making conversation.”
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