Good response, although I might want to remind us about the gipsies (that's how it's spelled in the novel and I keep wanting to type gypsies) because of how shocking it was when they decided they might have to kill Orlando because she believed something different. Up until that point, she had found a refuge from confining sex roles and national identities. Gypsies run counter to all kinds of social/political/gender etc. confinement, yet even here, even among the relatively free world of the gipsies/gypsies, Orlando encounters the dreaded human desire to make others believe as we do. Supposedly, in Orlando, this tension is resolved in the marriage to Bonthrop (Shel), because each finds enough of the same sex in the other (or, from the delightfully perverse reading, because it's really a marriage of convenience, allowing for freedom for each. . .)