1 'They do get so noisy,' she said.
2 Then she buried her face in her hands.
3 It was apparent that she was uttering a prayer.
4 'Of course if Tom was home he'd put it right in a moment,' she said.
5 You can all do it if you want to, she added as she straightened herself up.
6 He did not know her name, but he knew that she worked in the Fiction Department.
7 The idea had even crossed his mind that she might be an agent of the Thought Police.
8 Oh, comrade,' she began in a dreary, whining sort of voice, 'I thought I heard you come in.
9 With what seemed a single movement she tore off her clothes and flung them disdainfully aside.
10 What overwhelmed him in that instant was admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her clothes aside.
11 Still, he continued to feel a peculiar uneasiness, which had fear mixed up in it as well as hostility, whenever she was anywhere near him.
12 It was because of the atmosphere of hockey-fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean-mindedness which she managed to carry about with her.
13 She was carrying his baby sister--or perhaps it was only a bundle of blankets that she was carrying: he was not certain whether his sister had been born then.
14 Once when they passed in the corridor she gave him a quick sidelong glance which seemed to pierce right into him and for a moment had filled him with black terror.
15 His mother's memory tore at his heart because she had died loving him, when he was too young and selfish to love her in return, and because somehow, he did not remember how, she had sacrificed herself to a conception of loyalty that was private and unalterable.
16 He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so, because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask you to encircle it with your arm, there was only the odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity.
17 little boy screaming with fright and hiding his head between her breasts as if he was trying to burrow right into her and the woman putting her arms round him and comforting him although she was blue with fright herself, all the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him.
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