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“Do we need tea?” She echoed. “But Miss Lathbury…” she sounded puzzled and distressed and I realized that my waiting had struck at something deep and fundamental. It was the kind of question that starts a landslide in the mind.

“My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be a stream of consciousness type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink”