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Chapter 21

Things She Explained Away

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In October she was tired in a way she had never been tired.

Not sleepy. She could have told anybody the difference, and did, several times, with some impatience. Sleepy is a thing that happens to the top of your head and goes away when you stand up. This was underneath — in the arms, mostly, and in the four flights up to her own flat, which she had climbed twice a day for six years without ever once thinking about them and which she now stopped on.