I even made up her name.

She said her name was Verna Woods, but I think that's a made-up name, too.

I haven't the glimmering of an idea what her real name is, who her people are, where she came from, or why she wanted to kill herself." Then what?
First, bitter reproaches for Katie.

She would be painted as having violated all the canons.
For the first time, watching her friend's face softened by his dreams, seeing him as his mother's son, she questioned her right to violate them.
She did not know why she had not thought more about it before.

It had seemed such a _joke_ on the people in the enclosure.