Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatic personae in her hand.
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... The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult - whether that of a shrimp-pool or deeper waters - which afterwards subsides into cheerful peace. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same.
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... The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult - whether that of a shrimp-pool or deeper waters - which afterwards subsides into cheerful peace. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same.
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Their young delight in speaking to each other, and saying what no one else would care to hear was for ever ended, and become a treasure of the past.
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He would have made, she thought, a much more suitable husband for her than she had found in Lydgate. No notion of this could have been falser than this, for Rosamond's discontent in her marriage was due to the conditions of marriage itself, to its demand for self-suppression and tolerance, and not to the nature of her husband; but the easy conception of an unreal Better had a sentimental charm which diverted her ennui. She constructed a little romance which was to vary the flatness of her life.
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