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He conducted her through the dangers of the quayside Her sight was di by Men passed by as if in a

s, the sheds, the unexpected open spaces, the

ships, had strange, distorted, dangerous shapes She said to herself

that it was good not to be bothered hat all these thingshad a ), or were just

piled-up matter without any sense She felt how she had always been

unrelated to this world She was hanging on to it rasped firmly just above the elbow It was a captivity So be it Till

they got out into the street and saw the hansoinning brusquely but in a entler tone

than she had ever heard froht to have known that you could not care for a ives consent Yes? Eh? I don't want any of

that sort of consent And unless some day you find you can speak

No! No! I shall never ask you For all the sign I will give you you

rave with sealed lips But what I have said you must

do!"