Nothing new, unusual or exciting would be likely to happen to him.
If he went out to a dinner party or met a new face out hunting, that would be his only excitement.
He had very often thought to himself that the most stimulating thing about love affairs was the beginning.
There was something about the moment when he realised that a woman looked a little different from the other females around her.
He felt excitement as he first heard a potential lover’s voice and noticed the sudden widening of her eyes when she realised how attractive he was.
He knew every single movement of the courtship dance, yet each time it happened it seemed new, exciting and even thrilling.
Once he was tied up and married there would be no more of that – not only from his point of view, but also from the women
