Grace’s carefulness cracked. ‘Look, if I get married, I’ll be someone’s wife. Wives have duties. If I have children I’ll go insane for a year and a half – don’t look like that, you did, with James and with William, it was terrifying – and that will be a year and half of weeping over nothing and a brain made of soup in which I can’t work. And then it will happen again with the next child, and then slowly I won’t want to work at all, and I’ll always be soup, and I’ll just be … ’
