[Night and Day by Virginia Woolf]@TWC D-Link bookNight and Day CHAPTER VII 11/12
But what could I do? And then they had bad friends, both of them, who made mischief.
Ah, Katharine, when you marry, be quite, quite sure that you love your husband!" The tears stood in Mrs.Hilbery's eyes. While comforting her, Katharine thought to herself, "Now this is what Mary Datchet and Mr.Denham don't understand.
This is the sort of position I'm always getting into.
How simple it must be to live as they do!" for all the evening she had been comparing her home and her father and mother with the Suffrage office and the people there. "But, Katharine," Mrs.Hilbery continued, with one of her sudden changes of mood, "though, Heaven knows, I don't want to see you married, surely if ever a man loved a woman, William loves you.
And it's a nice, rich-sounding name too--Katharine Rodney, which, unfortunately, doesn't mean that he's got any money, because he hasn't." The alteration of her name annoyed Katharine, and she observed, rather sharply, that she didn't want to marry any one. "It's very dull that you can only marry one husband, certainly," Mrs. Hilbery reflected.
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