[The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf]@TWC D-Link bookThe Voyage Out CHAPTER XXII 26/30
I shall never see them again.
Just by going on a ship we cut ourselves off entirely from the rest of the world.
I want to see England there--London there--all sorts of people--why shouldn't one? why should one be shut up all by oneself in a room ?" While she spoke thus half to herself and with increasing vagueness, because her eye was caught by a ship that had just come into the bay, she did not see that Terence had ceased to stare contentedly in front of him, and was looking at her keenly and with dissatisfaction.
She seemed to be able to cut herself adrift from him, and to pass away to unknown places where she had no need of him.
The thought roused his jealousy. "I sometimes think you're not in love with me and never will be," he said energetically.
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