regularisation

Updated: May 31, 2025

There was the girl, rich, with an acceptable claim to be beautiful, shiningly virtuous, quite capable of political interests, and there was I, talented, ambitious and full of political and social passion, in need of just the money, devotion and regularisation Margaret could provide. We were both unmarried white sheets of uninscribed paper. Was there ever a simpler situation?

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The New Machiavelli