Determining Appropriate Pace Why should the underlined sentence be read with a
quick pace?
O to show how he continued to scold her
Read the passage carefully
She cried out that marriage was hateful to her. ... Then
he ceased to scold her. He begged her instead not to hurt
him, not to shame him in this matter of her marriage. He
would give her a chain of beads or a fine petticoat, he
said; and there were tears in his eyes. How could she
disobey him? How could she break his heart? The force of
her own gift alone drove her to it. She made up a small
parcel of her belongings, let herself down by a rope one
summer's night and took the road to London. She was
not seventeen.
-A Room of One's Own,
Virginia Woolf
O to match how quickly her feelings changed
O to match how quickly she decided to get married
O to reflect her urgency and determination to escape
Done