But at the end of all, she only said to herself: 'I don't want Gudrun to be there, because I want him to say something more to me.

So I shan't tell Gudrun anything about it, and I shall go alone.

Then I shall know.' She found herself sitting on the tram-car, mounting up the hill going out of the town, to the place where he had his lodging.

She seemed to have passed into a kind of dream world, absolved from the conditions of actuality.

She watched the sordid streets of the town go by beneath her, as if she were a spirit disconnected from the material universe.
What had it all to do with her?
She was palpitating and formless within the flux of the ghost life.