duogamists

Updated: May 15, 2025

I’ve said dozens of times, for the servant reason alone, that I wish I had never married. It would be madness to actually double one’s burden. You can strike me off the list of duogamists, Amoret, until the Servant Question is solved by some new invention of machinery, or the importation of Chinese.’ ‘Perhaps,’ Amoret suggested hopefully, ‘your alternative might consent to live in a hotel.’

Maud Churton Braby - Modern marriage and how to bear it