P. 39-43 Olivia’s and Douglas’ relationship

Thinking longer about their relationship I realized that it isn’t really as good as it seems at first. Douglas, who works like a Trojan doesn’t involve Olivia in any way in his work, so that she does almost never know what he’s doing currently. Nonetheless, she admires his way of speaking about it towards the men he’s working with. As he backbites over them she tries to protest against it, but he doesn’t even realize what she meant and switches off the pipe, instead. Even as she asks him about his work and his growing knowledge of Hindu, which she wants to gain too, he’s not interested and says that these are a men’s problems. Her wishes doesn’t seem to interest him, and in fact he doesn’t even notice her outer appearance, not recognizing the dress she wore so often.
Concerning the trip to Simla he already arranged everything with Beth Crawford, without asking her before if she wants to go or not. In fact, she doesn’t want to. As he says, „It’s the way it has to be.“. The only thing remaining is to implore him to let her stay with him.