"She thought of Leonce and the children. They were apart of her life. But they need not have thought that they could posses her, body and soul."

"She thought of Leonce and the children. They were apart of her life. But they need not have thought that they could posses her, body and soul." - page 128

Mrs. Pontellier is swimming in the sea in her calming and soothing place of all the places in the world. And as she is swimming she things of Mr. Pontellier and their children and how they did not mean as much to her as they should have. They did not mean enough for her to want to stay around and be with them as she should have been, although for a long period of her life they were in it and yet they never meant much to her.