She was writing for everybody, for nobody, for our age, for her own...

“Big Ben struck the half hour.How extraordinary it was, strange, yes, touching, …”

“Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty …”

“He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the …”

“I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ear…”