the whole of life, its masters, its adventurers, then appeared in long ranks of magnificent human beings behind me; and I was the inheritor; I, the continuer; I, the person miraculously appointed to carry it on.

“It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human appa…”

“One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones …”

“So we went to the Zoo; ”

“And somehow or other, the windows being open, and the book held so that it rest…”