“I ought to have guessed that a person like her – a person who you could tell had a deep inner certitude of self which comes from being all of one piece, of not being shreds and patches and old cogwheels held together with pieces of rusty barbed wire and spit and bits of string, like most of us – I ought to have guessed that that kind of person would not be surprised into answering a question she didn’t want to answer.”
