The world outside was merely a violent grey tumult.
For two days they had a perfect rest from their old emotions.

Rachel had just enough consciousness to suppose herself a donkey on the summit of a moor in a hail-storm, with its coat blown into furrows; then she became a wizened tree, perpetually driven back by the salt Atlantic gale.
Helen, on the other hand, staggered to Mrs.Dalloway's door, knocked, could not be heard for the slamming of doors and the battering of wind, and entered.
There were basins, of course.

Mrs.Dalloway lay half-raised on a pillow, and did not open her eyes.

Then she murmured, "Oh, Dick, is that you ?" Helen shouted--for she was thrown against the washstand--"How are you ?" Clarissa opened one eye.

It gave her an incredibly dissipated appearance.