All the Best, George Bush: My Life In Letters and Other Writings

Blood Up

The prince's notion of a recompense to women - similar in this to his notion of an appeal - was more or less to make love to them. Now he hadn't, as he believed, made love the least little bit to Mrs. Assingham - nor did he think she had for a moment supposed it. He liked in these days, to mark them off, the women to whom he hadn't made love: it represented - that was what pleased him in it - a different stage of existence from the time at which he liked to mark off the women to whom he had.