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Time Passes, the reason why I wanted to read this book in the first place, neatly describes how the beach house decays during the Ramsays' absence, their disintegration because of war and the sudden death of Mrs Ramsay. The focus shifts to the maîtresse Mrs McNab, reminiscing the family, their friends who visited, and how the house is restored when peace time arrives. With peace comes Lily Briscoe. Here she was again

Putty; dahlias; did Nancy go with them? ; p70; brooch; weeping willow; pother; holocaust; boeuf en daube; rebuked; prostration; salt cellar; boobies; p97; What was that? ; Luriana, Lurilee; Steer, hither steer your winged pines, all beaten mariners; sonnet 98.

Dress shirt; sprig; irascibly; wantonly; forlorn; cairns; p35; acrostics; The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare;cropper; helter-skelter; catch of her paintbox.

Up with the lark; the sound of poplar trees; leaves whitening before rain; our frail barks founder in darkness; odious; elucidate; jaunt; basking; capacious paunch; blandishments; somnolence; glibly; hoary; cyclamen and wild violets; deference; caustic; ephemeral as a rainbow; jacmanna; covey; colloquy; imputation; disparage; sweet Alice; capped; flamingo clouds; ponderous; in effigy; a flock of starlings;