Dance Me to the End of Love

Dance Me to the End of Love
female nude reclining
flaming june painting
¡¡¡¡ "But if people did as you want to do, there'd be a general domestic disintegration. The family would no longer be the social unit." ¡¡¡¡ "Yes--I am all abroad, I suppose!" said Phillotson sadly. "I was never a very bright reasoner, you remember.... And yet, I don't see why the woman and the children should not be the unit without the man." ¡¡¡¡ "By the Lord Harry!--Matriarchy! ... Does SHE say all this too?" ¡¡¡¡ "Oh no. She little thinks I have out-Sued Sue in this-- all in the last twelve hours!" ¡¡¡¡ "It will upset all received opinion hereabout. Good God-- what will Shaston say!" ¡¡¡¡ "I don't say that it won't. I don't know--I don't know! ... As I say, I am only a feeler, not a reasoner." ¡¡¡¡ "Now," said Gillingham, "let us take it quietly, and have something to drink over it." He went under the stairs, and produced a bottle of cider-wine, of which they drank a rummer each. "I think you are rafted, and not yourself," he continued. "Do go back and make up your mind to put up with a few whims. But keep her. I hear on all sides that she's a charming young thing." ¡¡¡¡ "Ah yes! That's the bitterness of it! Well, I won't stay. I have a long walk before me."