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 when he doesn't, he keeps the habits. Toujours des petits soins.
He never goes out of training, even at home." "He sounds charming to
live with." "Ah, yes. That
is it. He is charming. One cannot bear it. To have the five-finger
exercises of his irresistibility played on one. To be the stiff
piano on which he practises but never plays. It is too much. And one
remembers the days when one was
the concert grand. Pouf. It is not agreeable." There was a pause.
Maurice knew
that she was going to say

a great many other things. But they had reached the Hotel Bungalow.
Regretfully
they parted. He thought that she was a very remarkable woman indeed.
She thought how like her husband he was. Her husband twenty-five years
ago. At dinner she still was in black and white. Black covered with
filmy laces, soft and shadowy and mysterious. After dinner they sat on
the terrace and looked out at the inky relentless sea. "Being sensible
is no good

at all," she said with sudden passion. "Courage is the only helpful
virtue; when I married I was young and
very pretty and I had thought about

life a lot. I knew that in men fidelity had the importance

that they gave to it. To a few--very few--it matters--but in most
cases unfaithfulness is not a psychological thing at all; it is simply
a temporary excess like getting drunk--squalid, if you like--but not
touching your real relationships.

Women bluff a lot on the subje