One day he might bring home... «Atonement»
Sasti410 августа 2009One day he might bring home a friend for Cecilia to marry, if three years at Girton had not made her an impossible prospect, with her pretensions to solitude, and smoking in the bedroom, and her improbable nostalgia for a time barely concluded ... and all the self-adoring slumming, the knickers drying before the electric fire and two to a hairbrush, made Emily Tallis a little cross, though not remotely jealous. She had been educated at home ... and she knew for a fact that the whole performance, woman at the ‘Varsity, was childish really, at best an innocent lark... They weren’t even awarding girls proper degrees. When Cecilia came home in July with her finals’ result – the nerve of the girl to be disappointed with it! – she had no job or skill and still had a husband to find and motherhood to confront, and would her bluestocking teachers have to tell her about that?
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