How we cite our quotes: (Volume.Book.Chapter.Line)
Quote #10
There had been, in all the case, too many women. A man's sense of it, another man's changed the air. (2.9.4.9)
Merton is pumped that Sir Luke Strett has come to Venice, if only because it gives him the chance to get some much-missed bro-time. He has spent nearly this entire book getting bossed around by women, and he feels like it's high time he spent some QT with a guy. Sure, Lord Mark has been around, but Merton is too smart to think that Lord Mark is cool.