Chapter 66: LXV

LXV One of us two must bowen douteless, And, sith a man is more reasonable Than woman is, ye [men] moste be suffrable. Chaucer: Canterbury Tales The bias of human nature to be slow in correspondence triumphs even over the present quickening in the general pace of things: what wonder then that in 1832 old Sir Godwin Lydgate was slow to write a letter which was of consequence to others rather than to himself? Nearly three weeks of the new year were gone, and Rosamond, awa…