"'March fifteenth, nineteen twelve!' Your birthday, you see, and the day we met each other."
And then, down below, the only note she had made during the whole of that lecture, he read: "Never marry a man with a passion for principles."
"That's the trouble with us, you see," she said. "If you were just an ordinary man without any big passions or anything, it wouldn't matter much if your life got spoiled. But with us, we've got to try for the biggest thing there is. Oh, Roddy, Roddy, darling! Hold me tight for just a minute, and then I'll come and help you pack."