Fob would definitely do that if she had to. But I tend to imagine Kay and Edwin's marriage lasting quite a while, just not being a particularly good one. In fact, if they don't have any children of their own, don't you think it might last right up until Fob leaves home, and then stop? Edwin would come home one day a few weeks later, and Karen would put a meal in front of him while he read the latest issue of the Journal of the Society of Archivists. Then he'd look up, wondering where the coffee was, and ask why she was lugging that suitcase into the hall, and Karen would say, very calmly, that now Fob had left home she was going back to Oxford as a mature student. The taxi would arrive just at that moment, so he wouldn't understand that she'd left him until the letter arrived a few days later (sent second class by habit).
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2006-05-17 04:38 pm (UTC)one. In fact, if they don't have any children of their own, don't you think it might last right up until Fob leaves home, and then stop? Edwin would come home one day a few weeks later, and Karen would put a meal in front of him while he read the latest issue of the Journal of the Society of Archivists. Then he'd look up, wondering where the coffee was, and ask why she was lugging that suitcase into the hall, and Karen would say, very calmly, that now Fob had left home she was going back to Oxford as a mature student. The taxi would arrive just at that moment, so he wouldn't understand that she'd left him until the letter arrived a few days later (sent second class by habit).