Purposely, perhaps, Mary did not agree with Ralph; she loved to feel her mind in conflict with his, and to be certain that he spared her female judgement no ounce of his male muscularity.

“We think back through our mothers and grandmothers, if we are women.”

“And for some reason she held the sentence suspended without meaning in her mind…”

“. . . these errand-boys and furtive and fugitive girls who, ignoring their doom…”

“I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of tho…”