“Always planning for death. But was that enough? Dim, formless suspicions of something more vital wandered about his mind. He knew that at this moment Ruth lay upon her bed in torment, for she was by nature tender; and the reaction of her scathing words, no matter how justifiable, would be putting scars on her soul. ’ ‘Very good, ma’am. I am a young person seeking employment and freedom and self-development, just as in quite our first talk of all I said I wanted to be. ’ ‘His daughter, ma’am?’ Gerald asked. That is what marriage is to most young women: the ultimate escape from the family, from the unwritten laws that govern children. There is something sensual in the thought of lotus flowers. ‘Bête,’ she flung at him. At any rate he made it very clear that night that there was an ineradicable discord in life, a jarring something that must shatter all her dreams of a way of living for women that would enable them to be free and spacious and friendly with men, and that was the passionate predisposition of men to believe that the love of women can be earned and won and controlled and compelled.
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