'The whole pleasure of marriage', according to G K Chesterton, 'is that it is a perpetual crisis.' He had no time for David Copperfield's second wife, Agnes - an embodiment of lifeless perfection to be rated far below David's charming, domestically incompetent first love: David Copperfield and Dora quarrelled over the cold mutton; and if they had gone on quarrelling to the end of their lives, they would have gone on loving each other to the end of their lives; it would have been a human marriage. But David Copperfield and Agnes would agree about the cold mutton. And that cold mutton would be very cold.
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