Marriage a La Mode by Katherine Mansfield

William, a traditional husband, visits his bohemian wife and her free-spirited friends, only to find himself excluded and mocked by their modern attitudes. He struggles to understand her shifting values and the new life she’s chosen. The plot highlights the emotional disconnect between old-fashioned devotion and contemporary self-expression. Mansfield critiques the cost of intellectual posturing in personal relationships. It’s a sharp, sad story about love out of step with the times.