" "It's very well for you to talk like that; it's very much like that gentleman in Dickens who used to fling all difficult questions over his right shoulder.

But to deny the facts is no answer.

What's to be done--you tell me that, what's to be done? Your wife gets older, while you're full of life.

Before you've time to look round, you feel that you can't love your wife with love, however much you may esteem her.