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When the Assistant Commissioner reports back to Sir Ethelred about the bombing case, Sir Ethelred is surprised to learn that Verloc is married. Marriage doesn’t fit the image of a secret agent involved in anarchist activities, which reject conventional social and political structures by definition.
Verloc’s marriage gives his work (both as a pornography shop owner and as a secret agent) a façade of respectability. Yet, at the same time, Verloc seems genuinely attached to his wife—after the Embassy orders him to carry out the bombing, Verloc wants to flee the country, but since that would involve telling Winnie the…