Everybody else could grow shadowy, almost non-existent to him, but she could not.

It was as if the pivot and pole of his life, from which he could not escape, was his mother.
And in the same way she waited for him.

In him was established her life now.

After all, the life beyond offered very little to Mrs.Morel.

She saw that our chance for DOING is here, and doing counted with her.