to one of our morning meetings. Soo,  kno pain t put thing else.

    ‘I propose a more flexible timetable for our meetings,“ stled in .

    ‘Of course.“ I kneervieor, could see o control  yet taken full effect. And so  instead of presenting myself at nine every morning, I  instead for a tap at my door.

    At first tap came alen. t drifted to later. After tor altered ook to asking for me early in t our meetings o a  of meeting times a day, at random times. Sometimes s  lengtail. At otimes s  so muced as tic qualities of torytelling itself.

    time gone. I listened to ory, I e tory, ory, and ory t formed tant backdrop of my ts. It irely inside a book. I didn’t even need to emerge to eat, for I could sit at my desk reading my transcript  Judit to my room. Porridge meant it  lunceak and kidney pie ime over a dis did it mean? It could mean anyte a fee away.

    In tiated lapse of time, ts t stood out. I noted t time, separately from tory, and th recalling here.

    this is one.

    I  a ion of a fanatic: tions t came up so rarely on t it  a price to t fell at every point betremes. ticular, edition from turn of tury.  Miss inter in and settled he fire.

    er asked, “ are you looking for?”

    “Jane Eyre.”

    ‘Do you like Jane Eyre?“ she asked.

    ‘Very much. Do you?“

    ‘Yes.“

    She shivered.

    ‘Soke up the fire for you?“

    She lowered her eyelids as if a wave of pain had come over her. “I suppose so.”

    Once trongly aga