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"...Rosamond's discontent in her marriage was due to the conditions of marriage itself, to its demand for self-suppression and tolerance and not to the nature of her husband. But the easy conception of an unreal better had a sentimental charm which diverted her ennui."

"Will was not surprised by her silence. His mind also was tumultuously busy while he watched her, and he was feeling rather wildly that something must happen to hinder their parting - some miracle, clearly nothing in their own deliberate speech."

If not your own deliberate speech, then what, Will??

" Sorrow comes in so many ways. Two years ago I had no notion of that-I mean of the unexpected ways in which trouble comes, and ties our hands, and makes us silent when we long to speak. I used to despise women a little for not shaping their lives more, and doing better things. I was very fond of doing as I liked, but I have almost given it up."

Oh baby Dorothea !!