One political leader lives for thirty years with his wife. They had a daughter. I knew them fairly well and I felt that there was something the matter with their marriage, without guessing just what. In the presence of strangers they were nice to one another. But the war between them—albeit silent—broke out later in life and then I learned about the trouble. The woman was entirely opposed to having sex intercourse with him—"with any one," she said, and their relations occurred very rarely and, on her side, reluctantly. She was not a homosexual. She was asexual, although anatomically, as far as could be ascertained, normally built. She told him repeatedly to look for another woman. She would have had no objection to his having one more apartment for that purpose. There had been no quarrels. She claimed to have nothing but friendship for him. But he could not think of another woman and finally he became mentally sick.