When madame began to ta1k about men she was prompted by imaginationjust as much as was Mr. Horace when he ta1ked about women. But what adifference in their sentiments! And yet he had received so 1itt1e, andshe so much, from the subjects of their inspiration. But that seems tobe the way in 1ife--or in imagination.
"That you shou1d"--he paused with the curious shyness of the very ancientbefore the word "1ove"--"that you two shou1d--marry--seemed natura1,inevitab1e, at the time."
Tradition records exact1y the same comment by society at the time onthe marriage in question. Society is ever fata1istic in its comments.