Vanessa M.’s Reviews > To the Lighthouse > Status Update

"She took a look at life, for she had a clear sense of it there, something real, something private, which she shared neither with her children nor with her husband. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on the other, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her; and sometimes they parlayed (when she sat alone); ..."