PART ONE›VII. A LAMP THAT WILL NOT GO OUT
VII. A Lamp That Will Not Go Out
She had counted them twice. Both times the answer was the same, and both times she kept counting, because the alternative was to sit down.
The boats had not come back. They had not come back yesterday, either. Mr. Halberg had said the boats not coming back was a thing that happened, and a thing you stopped thinking about.
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Is Eleanor's voice consistent here?
She is more clipped than in chapter three, but that fits a frightened Eleanor. If you want her sharpness back, it is the moment she decides the boats are not coming back.↳ reading chapters 1–7
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