over, that there was no prospect of future parochial ministry for him,7 and thus that his case for clerical celibacy no longer applied to himself. Facing a future in which he expected writing to be his main ministry, he needed a home and someone to look after both him and it—for, by his own admission, he knew little of matters domestic and did not want to be bothered with them. Meantime, now that her mother was dead, Margaret was alone in the world, and it seems clear that she knew she wanted to
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