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Excerpt from The Subjection of Isabel Carnaby Well, in this way, single life is like a road, because it is always leading on to something else. It isn't meant to be a permanent place of residence: and people who make it so are behaving like Children of Israel or gipsies. They ought to 'fold up their tents'; a la Longfellow's cares and the Arabs, and silently steal away it is against the rules not to move on. Paul Seaton that was the name of the man in the green drawing-room) smiled with that indulgent kind of smile which husbands are wont to use when they think their wives are talking nonsense and like them all the better for it. You seem to consider single life a somewhat chilly and uncomfo...
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