Doll: ' He was from
some gruesome other
world where a child's
toy became an
obscene symbol.'
Deer Drive: 'He
understood for the first
time why he hated the
hunchback so profoundly
and yet was so fascinated
by him.'
Rumours: ' I saw that
imbecile exposing
himself.'
Calum
Deer Drive: ' Screaming
in sympathy, heedless of
the danger of being shot,
Calum flung himself upon
the deer and tried to
comfort it.'
Death: ' He hung
therefore in twisted
fashion, and kept
swinging. His arms were
loose and dangled in
macabre gestures of
supplication. Though he
smiled, he was dead.'
Beach Hut: 'Didn't
somebody say on the
wireless that in the
war-time everybody's
equal?'
Theme of Class
Lady R.C
Religion and Class: 'Her
contradiction between
her emulation of Christ
and her eminence as a
baronets wife.
Beach Hut: L.R.C: 'After
this war, the lower
orders are going to be
frightfully
presumptuous.'
Roderick
Roderick's reaction: '
There was room for all of
us mother.'
Cake: ' explanation
that it was a kind of
pilgrimage.'