Sons and Lovers

''"She was a brazen hussy."
"She wasn''t. - And she was pretty, wasn''t she?"
"I didn''t look ... And tell your girls, my son, that when they''re running after you, they''re not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them that - brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes"''

The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husba...