“Yes, because we shall not be crushing life to get all its perfume.”
“Restraint keeps things vivid.”
“That’s it—that’s what people don’t realise about marriage.”
She thrilled to the swift motion of the car, and to the knowledge that the imperturbable audacity of his driving was a man’s tribute to her presence.
“I suppose most people would say that we are utterly wrong.”
“It would be utterly wrong, for most people.”
“But not for us.”
“Not for us. We are just doing the sane and logical thing, because it is possible for us to live above the conventions. Ordinary people have to live on make-believe, and pretend they like it, and to shout ‘shame,’ when the really clean people insist on living like free and rational beings.”
“You are not afraid of the old women!”
“Good God! aren’t some of us capable of getting above the sexual fog—above all that dull and pious nastiness? That’s why I like a man like Shaw, who lets off moral dynamite under the world’s immoral morality. All the crusty, nonsensical notions come tumbling about mediocrity’s ears. There are times when it is a man’s duty to shock his neighbours!”