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Leacock, her employer, and her Prince will come to her. "Gwyneth believes she has only to speak the words and Mr. Leacock will be hers; and forever procrastinates, and never quite speaks them.... And so [women] grow old in expectation and illusion, and perhaps it is preferable to growing old in the harsh glare of truth" (p. 108). Living with myths and fairy tales not only insulates women from the truth, it also divides them from one another and makes them competitors for the few available prizes.
When Elsa responds that she does, Gemma says, "I thought you would" (p. 20). The tale Gemma then tells concerns the betrothal of Mr. Fox to Lady Mary, who, on the eve of their wedding, discovers Mr. Fox eating human flesh and carries home as evidence a finger with a ring on it. Her brothers kill Mr. Fox to save her from a horrible fate. The tale is one that Gemma heard on the train on her way to London as a young girl, and she believes that the hearing of it predestined her to fall in love with a Mr.
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