"I don"t intend him, or any man or woman, to be all my life - good heavens, no! There are heaps of things in me that he doesn"t, and shall never, understand." Thus she spoke before the wedding ceremony and the physical union, before the astonishing glass shade had fallen that interposes between married couples and the world. She was to keep her independence more than do most women as yet. Marriage was to alter her character - a little. There was an unforeseen surprise, a cessation of the winds and odours of life, a social pressure that would have her think conjugally.