...for me." "You could have called if you wanted me," she said. "And I wasn't so long doing my hair." "Apparently it was too long for me." "Well, you were...stop thinking of me I shouldn't be in the world at alll" He turned round and looked at her. She often said things which surprised him. A vague smile faded...

...for me." "You could have called if you wanted me," she said. "And I wasn't so long doing my hair." "Apparently it was too long for me." " Well, you were...smile faded away on her lips before his scrutiny. '%hat is it?" he asked. "Is it a reproach?" "A reproach ! Why, how could it be? " she defended herself....

...for me." "You could have called if you wanted me," she said. ""And I wasn't so long doing my hair." "Apparently it was too long for me." "Well, you were...to stop thinking of me I shouldn't be in the world all!" He turned round and looked at her. She often said things which surprised him. A vague smile faded...

...them. This makes them aspects of his thought and hence aspects of himself. Not only does Lena say, " 'Do you know, it seems to me, somehow, that if you...thinking of me I shouldn't be in the world at all!' " but later, when he tells her about his life, "For a long time the girl's grey eyes had been watching...

...the image of Heyst's conception of her. For instance, she asks Heyst to give her a new name, saying, "it seems to me, somehow, that if you were to stop...thinking of me I shouldn't be in the world at all! . . . I can only be what you think I am" (187). The result is a new self. Victory warns of allowing...