"Why SHOULD she? Really, Charles--!"
"Why should she, when she knows nothing about it?"
"She may know nothing about his business; but she must know it's her
extravagance that's forced him into it." Mrs. Fairford looked at Bowen
reproachfully. "You talk as if you were on her side!"
"Are there sides already? If so, I want to look down on them impartially
from the heights of pure speculation. I want to get a general view of
the whole problem of American marriages."
Mrs. Fairford dropped into her arm-chair with a sigh. "If that's what
you want you must make haste! Most of them don't last long enough to be
classified."
"I grant you it takes an active mind. But the weak point is so
frequently the same that after a time one knows where to look for it."
"What do you call the weak point?"