“Have you never thought of divorcing Gray?”
“I’ve got no reason for divorcing him.”
“That doesn’t prevent your countrywomen from divorcing their husbands when they have a mind to.”
She laughed.
“Don’t you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.”
— Somerset Maugham, “The Razor’s Edge”
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