On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 19:48:15 -0700, P <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Is [Viv's] line about not wanting children, a dig at TSE? 

"What you get married for if you don't want to have children."
"What you get married for if you don't want children."

Viv's revenge for the the preceding lines in Part II?

Maybe not.

Maybe it was something remembered from Kelland or Viv may have thought it was more in character.

Or that line could have been Vivien's (or TSE's) thoughts on the Eliot marriage but I can't remember seeing anything that either Eliot wanted children.


Just for kicks:

TSE's Stearns grandparents had 4 children
http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/charlotte-blood_19853148

TSE's Eliot grandparents had 14 children (don't know how many may have died young)
http://www.his.com/~feliot/languages/en/persons/Person_96111423.html

TSE's parents had 7 children (1 died young)
http://www.his.com/~feliot/languages/en/persons/Person_83972744.html

but only TSE's sister Charlotte had children (2)
http://www.his.com/~feliot/languages/en/persons/Person_81270630.html