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"The women round her were talking excitedly with a familiarity of the procedure and a pleasure that Dot found frightening. They were like flies round a dead dog. They went to murder trials like she went to the cinema. They were enjoying Reggie’s horrible death, it thrilled them. It made her sick."

"He began to daydream about himself and Reggie on board ship. They’d probably have to scrub decks, and they would sleep in hammocks. Did sailors really sleep in hammocks? Or was that just in films? And they would go ashore in exotic places and sometimes be at sea for weeks on end. He thought he would feel really safe if he and Reggie were together at sea. No one could take Reggie away from him then."

"Horrified, his mouth touched hers, and her lips seemed to grow like the fleshy tentacles of a sea anemone and draw him into the wet, dark, devouring cavity within."

"Dick liked to feel the money fat in his pocket. Then he could go and buy a suit or shoes or go drinking. Better than Dad’s pint on a Sunday. It was living."