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Orwell moves out of Rosalind’s flat. Their other flatmate, Janet Grimson, a medical student, had found herself having words with him about (not) sharing the housework. When he was gone Rosalind and Janet discovered a ‘family of mice’ living in his wardrobe, presumably on the half-finished boxes of biscuits he kept stashed there.
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Lydia has made peace with none of it. ‘I came in a mood still barely resigned to the fact of her marriage, vaguely antagonistic to her husband and ready to be critical of his attitude to his wife.’
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The way in which . . . he derived a firm impression that women did not like men,
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A wife gives a man a double life: one to go off in, and another to come back to.
