Chapter 23 quotes

Question 1

‘The streets near the station…

Answer 1

… were full of the smell of beer and coffee and decaying fruit and a shirt-sleeved populace moved through with them an intimate abandon of bourses going down the passage to the bathroom’

Question 2

‘she had a grey…

Answer 2

… silk sunshade over her head - how could her ever imagine her with a pink one?’

Question 3

‘she had pronounced the word…

Answer 3

…as if it had no more significance than any other word in her vocabulary’

Question 4

‘he laughed out…

Answer 4

…again, with a boyish satisfaction’

Question 5

‘seated side by side…

Answer 5

…on a bench on the half-empty boat, they found that they had hardly anything to say to each other, or rather that what they had to say communicated itself best in the blessed silence of their release and their isolation’

Question 6

‘There had been days and nights…

Answer 6

…when the memory of their kiss had burned and burned on his lips’

Question 7

‘seek to be alone…

Answer 7

…was the natural thing for two old friends who had so much to say to each other’