She had never seen anything like it.

She thought it was hell, with the naked, swearing, fighting people, and the red fires leaping night and day.

Nevertheless, if hell it were, since it lay betwixt her and him, she found force to brave and cross it.
The miners and glass-blowers and nail-makers, rough and fierce and hard, frightened her.

The women did not look like women, and the children ran and yelled at her, and set their dogs upon her.

The soil was thick with dust like soot, and the trees were seared and brown.