His eyes darted a terrible look at me, he spat again and vanished like a shadow.
I could not go upstairs. My life was ruined. I wondered if I should run away and never come back, or go and drown myself.
But these thoughts were not clearly formulated. I sat crouched in the dark on the bottom step and I surrendered myself to my misfortune.
There Lina found me in tears as she came down with a basket to get wood. I begged her to say nothing on her return and I went up.
My father’s hat and my mother’s sunshade hung on the rack near the glass door.
All these things reminded me of home and tenderness, my heart went out to them imploringly and, grateful for their existence,
I felt like the prodigal son when he looked into his old homely room and sensed its familiar atmosphere.
All this, the bright father-and-mother world, was mine no longer,
and I was buried deeply and guiltily in the strange flood, ensnared in sinful adventures,
beset by enemies and dangers, menaced by shame and terror.
The hat and sunshade, the good old sandstone floor, the big picture over the hall cupboard,
and the voice of my elder sister in the living-room, all this was dearer and more precious to me than ever,
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