Scylla and Charybdis. The price they pay is satiety. Would you rather have the placid indifference of nine couples out of ten, or at the cost of a little trouble and a little common sense keep Dickie loving you passionately to the end of his days?
Penelope.
[With a roguish twinkle.] You and mamma show no signs of being bored to death with one another.
Golightly.
Your sainted mother has been systematically unfaithful to me for twenty years.
Mrs. Golightly.
Charles!
Golightly.
She has had an affair with the Additional Curates’ Society, and an intrigue with the English Church Mission. She has flirted with Christian Science, made eyes at Homœopathy, and her relations with vegetarianism have left a distinct mark on her figure. How could I help adoring a woman so depraved?
Mrs. Golightly.