Volume I Chapter 8

Summary
Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot frequently dine together. They don't converse unless necessary. Captian Wentworth talks to everyone else except Anne. Also, Captian Wentworth talks about his experiences on the ship, and states that women aren't suitable to be let aboard his ship.

Family in I.8
After Captain Wentworth expresses his opinion that women should not be allowed on ships, the admiral says that "when he has got a wife, he will sing a different tune" (65). Captain Wentworth refutes this, claiming marriage will not change him. Slightly later on in the dinner, we hear Mrs. Musgrove state that "there is nothing so bad as separation" (66). Basically she's saying that being away from your significant other, ya know, sucks.