Or: "All this economic freedom of women is going to lead to other freedoms,
you know."
"What freedoms?"
"The right to live wherever they please. One liberty brings another,
you know. Women used to marry for a home, for some one to keep them. Now
they needn't, but--they have to live just the same."
"I wish you wouldn't, Rodney. It's so--cheap."
It was cheap. It was the old game of talking around conversational
corners, of whispering behind mental doors. It was insidious, dangerous,
and tantalizing. It made between them a bond of lowered voices, of being
on the edge of things. Their danger was as spurious as their passion,
but Natalie, without humor and without imagination, found the sense of
insecurity vaguely attractive.
Fundamentally cold, she liked the idea of playing with fire.