Mr. Carson: The nature of life is not permanence but flux.
Mrs. Hughes: Just so, even if it does sound fairly disgusting.
Poor Carson. Just when he was being extremely respectable, he said a certain word. He was going for the definition of flux which means continuous motion, but Mrs. Hughes, being a woman and a bit of a tease around Mr. Carson when he has it coming, took it a different direction. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, flux means a flowing, usually of bodily fluid such as blood. Anyone who has read several of Eloisa James' Regency romances notes that this term comes up as a word for a lady's time of the month. No wonder Carson is shocked another term for period escaped his lips. Carson, being vulgar! It's quite shocking.
"flux, n." OED Online. Oxford University Press, December 2014. Web. 5 January 2015.
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