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Those who heard him say this laughed and considered it a great joke. But to the Marquis there was much truth in this thought. He wanted to remain a bachelor and he did not wish to be shackled in any way. The very idea of marriage made him remove himself quickly and definitely from any female who might have been suggesting it. He thought now that he had been very stupid in not realising that Locadi had never been satisfied with being married to an unimportant Peer who had very little money. The Marquis was not quite certain what her standing had been before she married. He imagined that Lord Marshall was the best amongst her suitors and so she had accepted him. But he had been a great deal older than her, although at least as his wife she was able to appear at the Opening of Parliamen