Excerpt from Oh, What a Plague Is Love

Charles Frederick Marmaduke Strangways, commonly called 'Duke' by his friends, had been for years a cause of anxiety to his steady-going, irreproachable family. There had been many times when one or other of his sons or daughters, in a fit of discouragement, had declared wearily that they despaired of his ever settling down, and indeed Duke was incurably erratic. Men who had been his contemporaries pottered about their gardens in summer, and were content with the easy-chair by the chimney-nook in winter. They were grandfathers long since, but Duke's children gave no sign of making him a grandfather.

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