When they are young, Sally and Clarissa "speak of marriage as a catastrophe"

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• "for her husband... did all that for her" "with a mind of her own, she must always be quoting Richard" "the slow sinking, water-logged, of her will into his"

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• "Why should she suffer?"

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• "Lady Bruton detested illness in the wives of politicians"

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• "first bunched together; now of their own accord starting apart" "not that she was weak; but she wanted support"

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• "this is happiness." "that he had married Clarissa; a miracle"

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• "never had she felt so happy"

1. Peter Walsh
2. Support
   1. Happiness
   2. Conclusion

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      • As young "radicals" they can only see marriage as something that takes their independence and an extra pressure. As grown older and realised that it is "inevitable", they have found joy in their marriage.