'Shad and Cucumber'

In the complicated old european communities, archer began to guess love problems might be less simple and less easily classified. Rich and and ornamental societies must produce many more such situations. And there might even be one in which a woman naturally sensitive and aloof would, yet, from force of circumstances, from sheer defencelessness and loneliness, be drawn into a tie inexcusable by conventional standards. The only thing to do was to persuade him as early as possible to marry a nice girl, and then trust her to look after him.