Purposely, perhaps, Mary did not agree with Ralph; she loved to feel her mind in conflict with his, and to be certain that he spared her female judgement no ounce of his male muscularity.

“This I say is the present moment; this is the first day of the summer holidays.…”

“Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matt…”

“Such was the complexity of things. For what happened to her, especially staying…”

“But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking?—the entombed soul, the s…”