The author of "The Bond"seems to have chosen two possessors of "the [artistic] temperament" as protagonists in her little drama of matrimony because their ingeniousness and emotional intensity make sharp and patent that warfare of sex which, in the case, say, of the broker and brokeress, is fated to smoulder under a surface of dull accommodation.
The terms upon which they embrace matrimony are sufficiently modern. [...] No arrangement could be more flexible, none more likely to free wedlock outright of its remotest suggestion of bondage. Yet bondage there is, how subtle, how strong—how increasingly strong as time passes—it is the story-teller's purpose to reveal. … —The Nation, 7 May 1908 (Full review in the Talk page)
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