It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is that the world goes on and people go o… - Ford Madox Ford

She had Authority conferred on her. Metempsychosistically.

That was what a young woman was for. You seduced a young woman in order to be able to finish your talks with her. You could not do that without living with her. You could not live with her without seducing her; but that was the by-product. The point is that you can’t otherwise talk. You can’t finish talks at street corners; in museums; even in drawing-rooms. You mayn’t be in the mood when she is in the mood – for the intimate conversation that means the final communion of your souls. You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained … and exhausted …

That in effect was love.

Edward ought, I suppose, to have gone to the Transvaal. It would have done him a great deal of good to get killed.