Edna's True Feelings

Edna’s true feeling for Robert are revealed when she finds out that he is going to Mexico and she becomes very worried that he may not come back. She asks Robert “That’s one of the ridiculous things which men always say. I have never known on to speak otherwise of fanning. How long will you be gone (Chopin 60)?” Roberts answer shocks Edna and she becomes very worried about how long he is really going to be gone for. “Forever, perhaps. I don’t know. It depends upon a good many things (Chopin 60).”  Soon after she get s this response she seems to become very flustered and she says “That seems to me perfectly preposterous and uncalled for. I don’t like it. I don’t understand your motive for silence and mystery, never saying a word to me about it this morning (Chopin 60).” But why is this bother her so, doesn’t she have a husband and family that she should be worried about? She’s only “friends” with Robert and she has no say in his life so why is she so frustrated with him? Her flustered attitude continues “How unlike Robert! The merest acquaintance would have said something more than emphatic than “I will, thank you; good-by,” to such a request (Chopin 60)”