Mrs. Parbury.

[Slightly embarrassed.] Oh!

Gunning.

And, anyway, the state of marriage has always appeared to me to be a state of warfare.

Mrs. Parbury.

Mr. Gunning, you little know——

Gunning.

I admit the case of you and Clement to be an exceptional one. I’m talking of ordinary cases—the average marriage; there you will find, according to my observation, an endless war—a war of self-interests, a war of opposing emotions, a war of irreconcilable nervous organisations——

Mrs. Parbury.