Anthony Hope

Name: Love's Logic and Other Stories — Love's Logic
Author: Anthony Hope

Love's Logic and Other Stories… (1908)

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“Love's Logic and Other Stories — Love's Logic”, published in 1908, is a work by Anthony Hope. It explores elements such as conservatory, Marchesson and Grainger.

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Anthony Hope, Love's Logic and Other Stories… (1908)

“ Mr. M. You'd naturally enjoy men's society, you'd like their friendship, their company, their admiration. You'd enjoy an innocent but piquant flirtation.
Miss G. Should I?
Mr. M. (Looking at her.) Well, yes, I think you would. You daren't venture on it!
Miss G. It is generally fatal, I admit.
Mr. M. The plain truth is that the thing's intolerable. I shall stick a placard on my waistcoat—"Not for sale."
Miss G. And I'd better become a hospital nurse!
Mr. M. That's rather an odd remedy. Miss Grainger. But, in some form or other, celibacy—public and avowed celibacy—is our only chance. ”

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Anthony Hope, Love's Logic and Other Stories… (1908)

“ Miss G. Never forward or—or impertinent. Just nice, Mr. Marchesson.
Mr. M. I say, was that a good chap you refused in there (indicating the conservatory to the left) a thousand years ago?
Miss G. Very—so handsome! I liked him awfully. And the girl you refused——
Mr. M. To ask——
Miss G. In there? (Indicating the conservatory to the right.)
Mr. M. Really, you know—impartially speaking—a ripper! Why did we?
Miss G. What?
Mr. M. I said, "Why did we?"
Miss G. Was it—a thousand years ago? Yes?
Mr. M. Which certainly makes it absurd to call us strangers. ”

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Anthony Hope, Love's Logic and Other Stories… (1908)

“ Mr. M. (He smokes vigorously then throws his cigarette into a receptacle.) It's a precious lot easier for you than for us, though. I say, I must sound like a conceited idiot, I know, but—well, you see, the fact is——
Miss G. That you're Mr. Marchesson?
Mr. M. (Pleased.) You know my name?
Miss G. Oh yes. Mine's Grainger.
Mr. M. Yes. I—I know your name, Miss Grainger.
Miss G. You're diamonds? (She touches some that she is wearing as she speaks. He nods gloomily.) ”

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Anthony Hope, Love's Logic and Other Stories… (1908)

“ M. So even your paragon, if you found him, wouldn't meet the case. And as for my paragon nobody but Diogenes would take on the job of finding her.
Miss G. (Musing.) Is nobody indifferent to money?
Mr. M. Only if they've got more than they want. (He gives a glance at her, unperceived by her, rises, puts his hands in his pockets, and looks at her.) Only the unhappy rich. ”

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Anthony Hope, Love's Logic and Other Stories… (1908)

“ M. Imagine a man surfeited, cloyed, smothered in it; a man who has to pay six other men to look after it; a man who can't live because of the income tax, and daren't die because of the death duties; a man overwhelmed with houses he can't live in, yachts he can't sail, horses he can't ride ”

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Anthony Hope, Love's Logic and Other Stories… (1908)

“ It saps my faith in humanity, it trammels my actions, it confines my affections, it cuts me off from friendship, from the pleasant and innocent companionships which my nature longs for. I alone mayn't look with the eye of honest admiration on a pretty girl, I alone mayn't——
Miss G. Sit in a conservatory? ”

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Anthony Hope, Love's Logic and Other Stories… (1908)

“ Oh, your conservatory? No!
Miss G. Yours would be just as bad.
Mr. M. Then stay here.
Miss G. Take me to my carriage. And—and come and see if I'm not perfectly logical to-morrow.
(He releases her arm and kisses her hand. She adds in a low voice:) And—somehow—it is absurd—so wonderfully happy to-night! Will you come with me?
Mr. M. Will I live? Come! Quick—through your conservatory! (He puts his arm round her waist.) Come!
(They disappear into the conservatory on the left.)
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Anthony Hope, Love's Logic and Other Stories… (1908)

“ I didn't think anybody— (He turns as if to retreat into the conservatory.)
Miss G. Please don't go—and please do smoke. It's so nice and cool here, isn't it? (She sits down on the couch and fans herself gently.)
Mr. M. May I really? (He comes forward a little, holding up his cigarette.) You're sure you don't mind?
(She nods. He lights the cigarette.)
Miss G. It's so warm in that conservatory. (Pointing to the left.)
Mr. M. (With feeling.) So it was in that one. (Pointing to the right. He wipes his brow, she fans herself assiduously.) Ouf! ”

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