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Tono-Bungay Book 2 Chapter 4 - Parts 4-6
In which a spirited discourse unfolds on the complexities and contradictions of societal morality embodied in the figure of Grundy, leading to a fanciful vision of a segregated City of Women contrived to resolve the perennial tensions between the sexes. Subsequently, the solemn ritual of marriage is depicted with youthful resentment and keen observation of its social incongruities, marking a passage from passionate intimacy to the slow, inevitable estrangement that shadows domestic life.
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