The Plain Man and His Wife

by Arnold Bennett

II

The interesting point about the whole situation is that the plain man seldom or never asks himself a really fundamental question about that appointed path of his—that path from which he dare not and could not wander.

Once, perhaps in a parable, the plain man travelling met another traveller. And the plain man demanded of the traveller:

“Where are you going to?”

The traveller replied:

“Now I come to think of it, I don’t know.”

The plain man was ruffled by this insensate answer. He said:

“But you are travelling?”

The traveller replied:

“Yes.”