"Coarse, you are sometimes, Poff--nowadays.""It's exactly what I mean. I can understand the kind of curator's interest an Oriental finds in shepherding a large establishment, but to spend my days looking after one person who ought to be able to look after herself--""She's very young.""She's quite grown up. Anyhow I'm not a moral nursemaid.""If you leave her about and go abroad--""Has she been talking to you, mother?""The thing shows.""But about my going abroad?" cheap clarisonic"She said something, my little Poff."Lady Marayne suddenly perceived that beneath Benham's indifference was something strung very tight, as though he had been thinking inordinately. He weighed his words before he spoke again. "If Amanda chooses to threaten me with a sort of conditional infidelity, I don't see that it ought to change the plans I have made for my life....""No aristocrat has any right to be jealous," Benham wrote. "If he chances to be mated with a woman who does not see his vision or naturally go his way, he has no right to expect her, much less to compel her to go his way. What is the use of dragging an unwilling companion through morasses of uncongenial thought to unsought ends? What is the use of dragging even a willing pretender, who has no inherent will to seek and live the aristocratic life?"But that does not excuse him from obedience to his own call...."