Edith Wharton: "Ketika dia membayar uang tebusan dan mengikuti kereta...

"Ketika dia membayar uang tebusan dan mengikuti kereta panjang istrinya ke rumah, dia berlindung dalam keheningan yang menghibur bahwa enam bulan pertama selalu yang paling sulit dalam perkawinan. "Setelah itu kukira kita hampir saja selesai menyapu sudut masing-masing," renungnya; tapi yang terburuk adalah tekanan May sudah menyangga sudut-sudut yang sangat ingin ia pertahankan"

--- Edith Wharton

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Versi Bahasa Inggris

As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep