Book 2, Chapter 15: The Only Remedy

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​​​⁠The sudden flaw of passion that had troubled the waters of Rodney's soul, subsided, spent itself in mutterings, explanations, tending to become at last rather apologetic. He said he didn't know why her request had got him like that. It had seemed to him for a moment as if she didn't realize what the children's lives meant to them—almost as if she didn't love them. He knew that was absurd, of cours