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.