[The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf]@TWC D-Link bookThe Voyage Out CHAPTER IV 17/43
We know absolutely nothing about each other--and yet--I feel as if I _did_ know you!" "You have children--your husband was in Parliament ?" "You've never been to school, and you live-- ?" "With my aunts at Richmond." "Richmond ?" "You see, my aunts like the Park.
They like the quiet." "And you don't! I understand!" Clarissa laughed. "I like walking in the Park alone; but not--with the dogs," she finished. "No; and some people _are_ dogs; aren't they ?" said Clarissa, as if she had guessed a secret.
"But not every one--oh no, not every one." "Not every one," said Rachel, and stopped. "I can quite imagine you walking alone," said Clarissa: "and thinking--in a little world of your own.
But how you will enjoy it--some day!" "I shall enjoy walking with a man--is that what you mean ?" said Rachel, regarding Mrs.Dalloway with her large enquiring eyes. "I wasn't thinking of a man particularly," said Clarissa.
"But you will." "No.
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