Yet she must be among them.
And, like any other common lass, she found her 'boy.' It was an electrician, one of the electricians introduced according to Gerald's new scheme.

He was an earnest, clever man, a scientist with a passion for sociology.

He lived alone in a cottage, in lodgings, in Willey Green.

He was a gentleman, and sufficiently well-to-do.

His landlady spread the reports about him; he WOULD have a large wooden tub in his bedroom, and every time he came in from work, he WOULD have pails and pails of water brought up, to bathe in, then he put on clean shirt and under-clothing EVERY day, and clean silk socks; fastidious and exacting he was in these respects, but in every other way, most ordinary and unassuming.
Gudrun knew all these things.