Indeed, the sole criticism of him was that he prolonged beyond the point of decency, his look of nuptial rapture and the vagueness which rendered him, in conversation, slightly stupid.
Source: Boston Adventure, 1944.
-- Jean Stafford, (Jul 1 1915-1979), US short-story writer, novelist; She is noted for her deft development of fictional characters, The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford 1969.