- Vita and Violet's romance grows which leads to Vita dressing up as a man (an injured soldier on leave from the front) and meeting at hotels and boarding houses in London to continue their romantic tryst. However, Vita continues to have a loving and respectful relationship with Harold, but she doesn't hesitate to spend his money for spontaneous trysts with Violet. And she refuses to lie about her relationship with Violet, or give any false hope to Harold that it is less important to her than her marriage to him. Harold's willingness to accept his wife's love affair with another woman shows him borne of his desire to give her the utmost freedom. In conversations with male friends, Harold admits to jealousy, but chalks the affair up to Vita's inability to separate emotion from sex. He feels some pity for her, as her passionate nature seems to cause her pain, while his ability to detach spares him the same. For Violet, any marriage is a requirement to be avoided for as long as possible, and she doesn't hide this fact from her persistent but naïve suitor, Denys Trefusis, with whom she, more than once, unceremoniously turns him away in favor of Vita. But despite Violet's careless treatment of Trefusis, he truly cares for her. So willing is he to submit to her desires that he even agrees to a completely chaste marriage.—Larry B.
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