Manchurian Books

Of course the workgirls are dreadfully common,
but we don't say much to them. And Smithie talks enough for ten."
I quite understood the workgirls were dreadfully common.
I don't remember that the Walham Green menage and the quality of these
people, nor the light they threw on Marion, detracted in the slightest
degree at that time from the intent resolve that held me to make her
mine. I didn't like them. But I took them as part of the affair. Indeed,
on the whole, I think they threw her up by an effect of contrast; she
was so obviously controlling them, so consciously superior to them.
More and more of my time did I give to this passion that possessed me. I
began to think chiefly of ways of pleasing Marion, of acts of devotion,
of treats, of sumptuous presents for her, of appeals she would
understand. If at times she was manifestly unintelligent, in her
ignorance became indisputable, I told myself her simple instincts were
worth all the education and intelligence in the world. And to this day
I think I wasn't really wrong about her.


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