And she eagerly complied with his request.
"But what do they talk about?"
The scoffer Borg once asked that question, when he declared matrimony to be an impossibility from the point of view of natural science.
He laid down the proposition that the moment must come when every subject had been discussed, when each partner knew every thought and opinion of the other, and when absolute silence was bound to reign.
The fool!
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
Punctuation has been normalized. And the following misprints have been corrected:
Page [10]; listening to the plashing [splashing] of the waves;
Page [38]; their mutal [mutual] acquaintance.
Page [50]; took if [it] off.
Page [94]; calm foosteps [footsteps].
Page [105]; were of [the ]opinion.
Page [112]; the promotor [promoter] of the Bill.
Page [189]; the woman [in] question.
Page [213]; Struve had diasppeared [disappeared].