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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: gone, as one takes a butler, to make the household complete."
In previous meditations on his daughter's outlook old
Grammont had found much that was very suggestive in the
precedent of Queen Victoria. She had had no husband of the
lord and master type, so to speak, but only a Prince Consort,
well in hand. Why shouldn't the Grammont heiress dominate her
male belonging, if it came to that, in the same fashion? Why
shouldn't one tie her up and tie the whole thing up, so far
as any male belonging was concerned, leaving V.V. in all
other respects free? How could one do it?
The speculative calm of the sunken brown eyes deepened.
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