How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
(Did Eva call [Hitler] mein Führer even in bed? It seemed perfectly possible.) (24.101)
Yep, thinking about Hitler's sex life is perfectly natural in this book.
Quote #8
"[The war] seems to be everyone's excuse for bad behavior," Ursula grumbled. "If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much." (25.590)
Ursula seems to have a different opinion of sex as she gets older, which we see in this scene. What changes her attitude in the days since she was having an affair with Crighton, and sleeping with both Ralph and Fred Smith around the same time?
Quote #9
"[Jimmy's] a homosexual, you do know that, don't you?" Pamela said. […] It was information, not censure, but there was still a mild prurience in her words and the faintest trace of smugness, as if she were better able to cope with liberal views. Ursula wondered if she knew about Gerald and his "proclivities."
"Jimmy's just Jimmy," [Ursula] said. (25.617-25.618)
We're not sure why these details are included about Jimmy and Pammy's son, Gerald, but there they are. Pammy, despite being "liberal," defines Jimmy as a homosexual, but Ursula sees him as simply her brother, no matter what his "proclivities" are.