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If they should only be ill, ' she said, 'there would be so many little things we could do for them. It does seem in a kind of a way an opportunity. I often think it is only when a man is ill that he understands what a woman means in his life.Elizabeth Bowen
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Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband.Elizabeth Bowen
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And because no one answered or cared and a conversation went on without her she felt profoundly lonely, suspecting once more for herself a particular doom of exclusion. Something of the trees in their intimacy of shadow was shared by the husband and wife and their host in the tree-shadowed room. She thought of love with its gift of importance. "I must break in on all this, " she thought as she looked around the room. .Elizabeth Bowen