How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
She looked at his face, and she turned her own face to the wall. For his look was other than hers, his way was not her way. (2.129)
Elizabeth is horrified by how different and separate her husband is from her.
Quote #8
He had been cruelly injured, this naked man, this other being, and she could make no reparation. There were the children—but the children belonged to life. This dead man had nothing to do with them. (2.130)
Hmmm, now Elizabeth is suggesting that her husband is so alienated from everything and everyone (by virtue of being dead) that he has "nothing to do" with his children because they are alive. We understand that everyone copes with grief differently, but even then, this seems pretty extreme . . .
Quote #9
The children had come, for some mysterious reason, out of both of them. But the children did not unite them. Now he was dead, she knew how eternally he was apart from her, how eternally he had nothing more to do with her. She saw this episode of her life closed. They had denied each other in life. Now he had withdrawn. An anguish came over her. It was finished then: it had become hopeless between them long before he died. Yet he had been her husband. But how little!—. (2.130)
Somehow the trauma of Walter's death has made Elizabeth forget how babies are made? We jest, of course, but the point here is that Elizabeth takes what is often viewed as the ultimate act of physical connection in human existence and treats it like it's just kind of accidental or mysterious.