Yes, nobody has asked me; but everybody treats the thing as settled. It's in the air. When we meet, the others go away on absurd pretexts to leave us alone together. Ramsden no longer scowls at me: his eye beams, as if he were already giving you away to me in church. Tavy refers me to your mother and gives me his blessing. Straker openly treats you as his future employer: it was he who first told me of it. (ANN: Was that why you ran away?) Yes, only to be stopped by a lovesick brigand and run down like a truant schoolboy. (ANN: Well, if you don't want to be married, you needn't be.) (following her) Does any man want to be hanged? Yet men let themselves be hanged without a struggle for life, though they could at least give the chaplain a black eye. We do the world's will, not our own. I have a frightful feeling that I shall let myself be married because it is the world's will that you should have a husband.

Tanner Monologue from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy

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