No real troubles, no deep joys.

Her parents even died when she was too young to know them.
But she is eighteen and alive to her finger-tips.

Therefore she's--expectant." "Yes," Hillyard agreed.
"She is searching for the meaning, for the secrets of life, sure that there is a meaning, sure that there are secrets, if only she could get hold of them.

But she hasn't got hold of them.

She runs here.