In the original, the text reads:
"You want to keep him at home I suppose" (V. Eliot 15).
Thus, Eliot is taking the focus off Lil's troubles with pregnacy, and places it on her husband. Evidently, he decided that this line was too much of a jump for the conversation to take, and instead chose to write, "What you get married for if you don't want children?" thus making his busybody speaker blame Lil for the damage the abortion did to her body.
This website the work of Abigail L. Bunting
"You want to keep him at home I suppose" (V. Eliot 15).
Thus, Eliot is taking the focus off Lil's troubles with pregnacy, and places it on her husband. Evidently, he decided that this line was too much of a jump for the conversation to take, and instead chose to write, "What you get married for if you don't want children?" thus making his busybody speaker blame Lil for the damage the abortion did to her body.
This website the work of Abigail L. Bunting