The Custom of the Country Chapter 39

In which Undine navigates the exacting rhythms of family expectations and social conventions, feeling the slow encroachment of a life shaped more by tradition than by her own desires. Amidst the shifting scenery of Paris and Saint Desert, she confronts the delicate gap between intimacy and indifference in her marriage, while the whispered judgments of kin and the spectre of childlessness weigh gently upon her spirits.