If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one’s spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life

If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one’s spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life (Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder)