staylessness

Updated: May 12, 2025

She would probably be a worthy, stolid, stayless lady with none of my faults, and when he was fed up with her stolid staylessness he could come back to me, and my very faults, you see, would be pleasing to him by reason of their contrast to hers, and vice versa.’

Maud Churton Braby - Modern marriage and how to bear it