If Birkin could get at the secrets, let him. Gerald would
never help him. Gerald would be a dark horse to the end.
'Of course,' he said, with a startling change of conversation, 'it is
father who really feels it. It will finish him. For him the world
collapses. All his care now is for Winnie--he must save Winnie. He says
she ought to be sent away to school, but she won't hear of it, and
he'll never do it. Of course she IS in rather a queer way. We're all of
us curiously bad at living. We can do things--but we can't get on with
life at all. It's curious--a family failing.'
'She oughtn't to be sent away to school,' said Birkin, who was
considering a new proposition.
'She oughtn't. Why?'
'She's a queer child--a special child, more special even than you. And
in my opinion special children should never be sent away to school.
Only moderately ordinary children should be sent to school--so it seems
to me.'
'I'm inclined to think just the opposite. I think it would probably
make her more normal if she went away and mixed with other children.
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