Unlike Aunt Kit, who believed it to be a barbaric rite, intolerable between reasonable men and women, Aunt Lilian, the headmistress, simply felt it her duty to point out that a career - any career - would be less easy once a girl was lumbered with a husband and children. (Though in fact she would not have said ``lumbered'', not because she was afraid to put forward an unpopular view, but because she was an honourable and exact woman.)
Aunt Lilian had enjoyed her life more than most of her married contemporaries
If she suspected she had enjoyed her life more than most of her married contemporaries she would never have used a pejorative word about the married state since she had no personal experience of it.)
Unlike Aunt Kit, who believed it to be a barbaric rite, intolerable between reasonable men and women, Aunt Lilian, the headmistress, simply felt it her duty to point out that a career - any career - would be less easy once a girl was lumbered with a husband and children. (Though in fact she would not have said ``lumbered'', not because she was afraid to put forward an unpopular view, but because she was an honourable and exact woman.)</s>If she suspected she had enjoyed her life more than most of her married contemporaries she would never have used a pejorative word about the married state since she had no personal experience of it.)</s>Aunt Lilian had enjoyed her life more than most of her married contemporaries