Summary

In Section 14, Paul told Jane that he drove Iris and Ethel, the maid and cook at Upleigh, to the Titherton Station. He said he “wanted to give them a proper goodbye” (37). Jane pictured Paul driving the women through her whole life. Section 15 reveals that Jane knew Ethel, the maid at Upleigh. Ethel was a good maid who “turned a blind eye and a deaf ear and, above all, kept a closed mouth” (39). Even so, Jane never told Ethel about her relationship with Paul. In Section 16, Paul undressed Jane and told her that he was “mugging up” (40) his law books, which was his excuse for getting out of meeting the families. He was studying to become a lawyer, even if they both knew that he had “as much intention of becoming a lawyer as becoming a lettuce” (41).

Section 17 finds Jane and Paul in bed...