ABSTRACT
In spite of these hints of moves towards independence, or perhaps even because of them, the battle over it became increasingly intense. Although saying she now had more security than ever before in her life, her dread of doing violence, either to herself or to a child, now became her central conscious problem. (She now hardly ever talked about her anxiety over blushing or mentioned the head-turning dread.) What she did continually want to talk about was the fact that she could not travel on the underground at all without her husband, and how she demanded that he hold onto her when a train came in because of the dread that she would throw herself in front of it.
