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Edna could not help but think that it was very foolish, very childish,

to have sta and smashed the crystal vase upon

the tiles She was visited by noher to such

futile expedients She began to do as she liked and to feel as she

liked She completely abandoned her Tuesdays at home, and did not return

the visits of those who had called upon her She made no ineffectual

efforts to conduct her household en bonneas

it suited her fancy, and, so far as she was able, lending herself to any

passing caprice

Mr Pontellier had been a rather courteous husband so long as he met

a certain tacit submissiveness in his wife But her new and unexpected

line of conduct completely bewildered hiard for her duties as a wife angered hirew insolent She had resolved never to

take another step backward

"It seems to me the utmost folly for a woman at the head of a household,

and the mother of children, to spend in an atelier days which would be

better e for the co," answered Edna "Perhaps I shan't always feel

like it"