她了解到，婚姻很少表面上是什么。似乎是最平等，最合适的安排可能是下面的不满和不满。相反，充满冲突和不忠的混乱和嘈杂的关系可能被证明是工会中最持久的。
(A marriage, she had learned, is seldom what it seems to be on the surface; what appears to be the most equable, well settled of arrangements might be a seething mass of discontent and resentment underneath. And conversely, chaotic and noisy relationships, littered with conflict and infidelity, might prove to be the most durable of unions.)