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‘Things have begun to flood over me. I feel shaken—Yet it was so obvious—clear—once I saw it. Why have I never thought of it before? I had gone to bed last night thinking of those risks the people long ago were taking—I felt not bafflement but anger. 'Memorise my life.' I couldn’t get the phrase out of my mind—There is something in my mind that will not stop insisting itself. She seemed to guess what I was thinking.’