The Story hinges upon war regarded as an agapemone, a lust fest. To focus this notion there is Sylvia Tietjens. To contrast war with quiescent civilization there is Christopher Tietjens of Groby, her husband. Both are extreme types, impossible in life unless recent English divorce cases were toned down in the newspapers.
She had had men before he married her. Even their boy's paternity was unknown to him. He had married her, not only for her transcendent, slender beauty, but because she asked him to. She had turned to...
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