t to hear people talk, and know what is going on round about me. And to read a different kind of books; books that would really amuse me, and give me something I could think about with pleasure. Life will be a burden to me before long if I don’t have more freedom.’
‘Freedom?’
‘Yes, I don’t think there’s any harm in saying that.’
‘Freedom?’ He glared at her. ‘I shall begin to think that you wish you had never married me.’
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‘But here’s the old confusion. I am a man; you are a woman.’
‘I can’t see that that makes any difference. A woman ought to go about just as freely as a man. I don’t think it’s just. When I have done my work at home I think I ought to be every bit as free as you are — every bit as free. And I’m sure, Edmund, that love needs freedom if it is to remain love in truth.’
He looked at her keenly.
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‘What law do you mean?’
‘Why, the natural law that points out a woman’s place, and’— he added, with shaken voice —‘commands her to follow her husband’s guidance.’
‘Now you Scarpe Nike Roshe Run Uomo are angry. We mustn’t talk about it any more just now.’
She rose and poured out a glass of water. Her hand trembled as she drank. Widdowson fell into gloomy abstraction. Later, as they lay side by side, he wished to renew the theme, but Monica would not talk; she declared herself too sleepy, turned her back to him, and soon slept indeed.
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